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This paper represents the confluence of several streams of resarch on the real time complexity of distributed algorithms. The primary focus of our study is on two models and two problems: the timed automata model of Attiya and Lynch and the (“latency”) model of approximately synchronized clocks studied by Strong et. al., and the problems of consensus and atomic broadcast. We compare these models and problems, producing new results and significant improvements of previously known bounds. In particular, we are able to significantly improve the upper bound of Strong, Dolev, and Cristian on latency for Byzantine failures, giving an algorithm that is much simpler with vastly easier analysis. For this problem, we also improve the best known lower bound on latency. We also provide certain reductions between problems and models and provide preliminary answers to some new questions in the timed automata model.
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Ponzio, S., Strong, R. (1992). Semisynchrony and real time. In: Segall, A., Zaks, S. (eds) Distributed Algorithms. WDAG 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 647. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56188-9_9
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