Another advantage of free choice (Extended Abstract): Completely asynchronous agreement protocols

@inproceedings{BenOr1983AnotherAO,
  title={Another advantage of free choice (Extended Abstract): Completely asynchronous agreement protocols},
  author={Michael Ben-Or},
  booktitle={PODC '83},
  year={1983}
}
  • M. Ben-Or
  • Published in PODC '83 17 August 1983
  • Mathematics
Recently, Fischer, Lynch and Paterson [3] proved that no completely asynchronous consensus protocol can tolerate even a single unannounced process death. We exhibit here a probabilistic solution for this problem, which guarantees that as long as a majority of the processes continues to operate, a decision will be made (Theorem 1). Our solution is completely asynchronous and is rather strong: As in [4], it is guaranteed to work with probability 1 even against an adversary scheduler who knows all… 
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