• DocumentCode
    3504371
  • Title

    An efficient algorithm for leader-election in synchronous distributed systems

  • Author

    Park, Sung-Hoon ; Kim, Yoon ; Hwang, Jeoung Sun

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci, Nam-Seoul Univ., Chung Nam, South Korea
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    36495
  • Firstpage
    1091
  • Abstract
    Leader election is an important problem in distributed computing. H. Garcia-Molina´s (1982) Bully algorithm is a classic solution to leader election in synchronous systems with crash failures. In this paper, we indicate the problems with the Bully algorithm and re-write it to use a failure detector instead of explicit time-outs. We show that this algorithm is more efficient than Garcia-Molina´s one in terms of processing time
  • Keywords
    client-server systems; distributed algorithms; failure analysis; software performance evaluation; system recovery; Bully algorithm; crash failures; distributed computing; efficient algorithm; explicit time-outs; failure detector; leader election; processing time; synchronous distributed systems; Computer crashes; Computer science; Detectors; Distributed computing; Fault tolerant systems; Frequency; Information management; Network topology; Nominations and elections; Sun;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON 99. Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Cheju Island
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5739-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.1999.818613
  • Filename
    818613