AIRCC's International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology

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There are many distributed systems which use a leader in their logic. When such systems need to be fault tolerant and the current leader suffers a technical problem, it is necessary to apply a special algorithm in order to choose a new leader. In this paper I present a new fault tolerant algorithm which elects a new leader based on a random roulette wheel selection.

Keywords

Leader Election, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Systems.
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