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Reaching Agreement among Virtual Subnets in Hybrid Failure Mode
September 2008 (vol. 19 no. 9)
pp. 1252-1262
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S.-C. Wang, K.-Q. Yan, S.-S. Wang, G.-Y. Zheng, "Reaching Agreement among Virtual Subnets in Hybrid Failure Mode," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1252-1262, September, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPDS.2007.70819,
author = {S.-C. Wang and K.-Q. Yan and S.-S. Wang and G.-Y. Zheng},
title = {Reaching Agreement among Virtual Subnets in Hybrid Failure Mode},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {19},
number = {9},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2008},
pages = {1252-1262},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2007.70819},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TI - Reaching Agreement among Virtual Subnets in Hybrid Failure Mode
IS - 9
SN - 1045-9219
SP1252
EP1262
EPD - 1252-1262
A1 - S.-C. Wang,
A1 - K.-Q. Yan,
A1 - S.-S. Wang,
A1 - G.-Y. Zheng,
PY - 2008
KW - Byzantine agreement
KW - fault-tolerance
KW - distributed system
KW - parallel processing
KW - virtual subnet
KW - mobile ad-hoc network
VL - 19
JA - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ER -
 
Fault-tolerance is an important research topic in the study of distributed systems. To cope with the influence of faulty components, reaching a common agreement in the presence of faults before performing certain tasks is essential. However, the Byzantine Agreement (BA) problem is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In previous studies, protocols dealing with the BA problem focused on static networks; however, these do not perform well in dynamically changing mobile networks. The most well known mobile network is the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). To enhance fault-tolerance and MANET reliability, the BA problem in virtual subnets of MANET is revisited in this paper. The proposed protocol is called the Hybrid Agreement Protocol (HAP). It achieves agreement on a common value among all functional mobile processors in a minimal number of message exchange rounds, and can tolerate a maximal number of allowable faulty components in the virtual subnet of MANET.

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Index Terms:
Byzantine agreement, fault-tolerance, distributed system, parallel processing, virtual subnet, mobile ad-hoc network
Citation:
S.-C. Wang, K.-Q. Yan, S.-S. Wang, G.-Y. Zheng, "Reaching Agreement among Virtual Subnets in Hybrid Failure Mode," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1252-1262, Sept. 2008, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2007.70819
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