A Tight Upper Bound on the Benefits of Replication and Consistency Control Protocols
Summary: Tight upper bound: if a single‑copy availability is A (0<A<1) then no mutual‑exclusion/consistency protocol in the same failure-prone network can exceed sqrt(A). Bound is tight for A>0.25; computing A is #P‑complete, but a practical dynamic approximation for single‑copy placement is given. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Donald B. Johnson (Dartmouth College)
- 2. Larry Raab (Dartmouth College)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{johnson_pods91,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '91},
title = {{A Tight Upper Bound on the Benefits of Replication and Consistency Control Protocols}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/113413.113420},
doi = {10.1145/113413.113420},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Johnson, Donald B. and Raab, Larry},
year = {1991}
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