All failure detector classes in the lattices can be used to solve k-set agreement in their corresponding models. ronment without worrying whether a failure ...

Aug 12, 2007 · Weakening failure detectors for k-set agreement via the partition approach · Relations linking failure detectors associated with k-set agreement ...

The partition approach to dene failure detectors is proposed to further weaken failure detectors that are already very weak in solving k-set agreement, ...

May 1, 2007 · The power of the partition approach is to further weaken failure detectors that are already very weak in solving k-set agreement, and thus ...

Partition approach to failure detectors for k-set agreement. Technical Report. TR-2007-49, Microsoft Research, May 2007. [3] C. Delporte-Gallet, H ...

Abstract In k-set agreement problem, every process proposes a value and eventually at most k different values can be decided. When k > 1, different subset ...

In this paper, we propose the partition approach and define several new classes of partitioned failure detectors weaker than existing failure detectors for ...

In the partition approach, failure detectors partition the processes into multiple com- ponents and only processes in one of the components (called a live ...

Aug 14, 2007 · Partition Approach to Failure. Detectors for k-Set Agreement. Wei Chen, Microsoft Research Asia. Jialin Zhang, Tsinghua University. Yu Chen ...

In this paper, we determine the weakest failure detector for solving k-set agreement among n processes (n > k) using reads and writes in shared memory, ...