The detection of failures is a fundamental issue for fault-tolerance in distributed systems.
Recently, many people have come to realize that failure detection ought to be provided as …

Since the first version of Chandra and Toueg's seminal paper titled" Unreliable failure
detectors for reliable distributed systems" in 1991, the failure detector concept has been …

A noteworthy advance in distributed computing is due to the recent development of peer-to-
peer systems. These systems are essentially dynamic in the sense that no process can get a …

This paper presents a simple framework unifying a family of consensus algorithms that can
tolerate process crash failures and asynchronous periods of the network, also called …

We present a novel partially synchronous system model, which augments the asynchronous
model by a (possibly unknown) bound Θ on the ratio of longest and shortest end-to-end …

For many years, people have been advocating the development of failure detection as a
basic service, but, unfortunately, without meeting much success so far. We believe that this …

In today's world where distributed systems form many of our critical infrastructures,
dependability outagesare becoming increasingly common. In many situations, it is …

Leader-based protocols rest on a primitive able to provide the processes with the same
unique leader. Such protocols are very common in distributed computing to solve …

This report considers the eventual leader election problem in asynchronous message-
passing systems where an arbitrary number $ t $ of processes can crash ($ t< n $, where $ n …

Leader-based protocols rest on a primitive able to provide the processes with the same
unique leader. Such protocols are very common in distributed computing to solve …