2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
From Omega to ?P in the Crash-Recovery Failure Model with Unknown Membership
March 04-March 07
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3102-1
Unreliable failure detectors are mechanisms providing information about process failures. This paper addresses the implementation of the Eventually Perfect failure detector class, denoted P, in the crash-recovery failure model. The approach followed is to transform existing implementations of the Omega failure detector, which provides an eventual leader election functionality, into P. In a system with the minimal requirements to implement P, we first propose a generic transformation algorithm that uses the underlying Omega as a black box. Then, we enhance the algorithm to provide a common set of k correct processes. The algorithms do not require the membership of the system to be known a priori.
Index Terms:
Distributed algorithms, Consensus, Omega failure detector, eventually perfect, crash-recovery
Citation:
Mikel Larrea, Cristian Mart?, "From Omega to ?P in the Crash-Recovery Failure Model with Unknown Membership," ares, pp.801-806, 2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008