Title: The diagnosis of consensus agreement in a MANET

Authors: Mao-Lun Chiang

Addresses: Chaoyang University of Technology, 168 Jifeng E. Rd., Wufeng District, Taichung County 413, Taiwan

Abstract: For achieving the reliability, the fault tolerance of distributed systems needs to be studied. One of the most important problems of fault-tolerance issues is the fault diagnosis agreement (FDA). The goal of the FDA is to make each fault-free processor detect/locate a common set of faulty processors. However, previous works cannot solve the FDA problem in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Therefore, the FDA problem is revised in this study by an evidence-based fault diagnosis protocol under dual failure characteristics on processors in a MANET. The proposed evidence-based mobile FDA protocol can detect/locate maximum number of faulty processors using minimum number of message exchange in a MANET.

Keywords: byzantine agreement; FDA; fault diagnosis agreement; fault-tolerance; consensus; MANET; mobile ad-hoc network.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2017.086260

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2017 Vol.26 No.2, pp.82 - 91

Received: 20 Oct 2014
Accepted: 15 Apr 2015
Published online: 04 Sep 2017 *

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