WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
SCL
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
Abstract-- In this work, we focus on a class of nonlinear asynchronous systems defined by two different modes of operation, one stable and the other one unstable. The switching bet...
CORR
2006
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
2006
Springer
The asynchronous systems f are the models of the asynchronous circuits from digital electrical engineering. They are multi-valued functions that associate to each input u : R {0, ...
ICTAC
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...