Title :
Quick consensus through early disposal of faulty processes
Author :
Dalui, Mamata ; Chakraborty, Bidesh ; Sikdar, Biplab K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sc & Tech, Bengal Eng. & Sci. Univ., Shibpur, India
Abstract :
This work reports an efficient solution for reaching agreement (consensus) among the processes of a distributed system. The better efficiency is achieved through early disposal of faulty processes while approaching for a consensus. The introduced network partitioning scheme further facilitates the progress by reducing the message exchange overhead. Simulation results establish that the proposed solution significantly reduces the message exchange complexity, in comparison to the schemes reported so far, simultaneously ensuring the fault-tolerance ability of a system as that of the known best results.
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; message passing; distributed system; early faulty process disposal; fault-tolerance ability; message exchange; network partitioning scheme; quick consensus; Computer crashes; Cybernetics; Decision making; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Protocols; USA Councils; Byzantine agreement; Consensus; Early stopping; Reaching agreement;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2793-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1062-922X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346568