Abstract: International audience; Consensus is the most basic agreement problem encountered in fault-tolerant distributed computing: each process proposes a value and non-faulty processes must agree on the same value, which has to be one of the proposed values. While this problem is impossible to solve in asynchronous systems prone to process crash failures, it can be solved in synchronous (round-based) systems where all but one process might crash in any execution. It is well-known that (t + 1) rounds are necessary and sufficient in the worst case execu...
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Topics: 
Algorithm
Discrete mathematics
Combinatorics