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Publication
PODC 1996
Conference paper
On the impossibility of group membership
Abstract
We prove that the primary-partition group membership problem cannot be solved in asynchronous systems with crash failures, even if one allows the removal or killing of non-faulty processes that are erroneously suspected to have crashed.