Correctness Proof of Ben-Or's Randomized Consensus Algorithm
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Aguilera, Marcos Kawazoe
Toueg, Sam
Abstract
We present a correctness proof for Ben-Or's Randomized Consensus Algorithm for the case in which processes can fail by crashing, and a majority of processes is correct. This is the first time that the proof of Ben-Or's algorithm appears for this case. The proof has been extracted from [AT96]: it is a simplification of the correctness proof of a more complex consensus algorithm that involves both randomization and failure detection.
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1998-05
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Cornell University
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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR98-1682
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technical report