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This paper defines the Non-Blocking Atomic Commitment problem in a message-passing asynchronous system and determines a failure detector to solve the problem. This failure detector, which we call the modal failure detector star, and which we denote by M*, is strictly weaker than the perfect failure detector P but strictly stronger than the eventually perfect failure detector ◇P. The paper shows that at any environment, the problem is solvable with M*.
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Park, SH., Lee, SH. (2012). Solving Non-Blocking Atomic Commitment Problem in Asynchronous Distributed Systems with Unreliable Failure Detectors. In: Lee, G., Howard, D., Ślęzak, D., Hong, Y.S. (eds) Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology. ICHIT 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32692-9_13
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