Consider a setting where processors ane not associated with unique identifiers but the total number of processors is known and the processors are onganized along a bidirectional ring.Is it possible to derive an election algorithm for such a setting?
It is impossible to elect a leader in a deterministic manner when the processors do not contain unique identifers.Since different processors have no distinguishing mark,they are assumed to start in the same state and transmit and receive the same messages in every timestep.Hence,there is no way to distinguish the processors even after an arbitarily lange number of timesteps.
It is impossible to elect a leader in a deterministic manner when the processors do not contain unique identifers.Since different processors have no distinguishing mark,they are assumed to start in the same state and transmit and receive the same messages in every timestep.Hence,there is no way to distinguish the processors even after an arbitarily lange number of timesteps.