Building consensus in context-aware systems using Ben-Or’s algorithm: Some proposals for improving the convergence speed

For context-aware systems, it is essential for the constituent components to react flexibly to changes happening in the surrounding environment. In distributed networks, a failure of some nodes might disrupt the whole system. Given the circumstances, it is necessary for the remaining nodes to find consensus on a new organizational structure. In this paper, we propose an approach for improving the convergence speed of a prominent algorithm for finding consensus: Ben-Or’s algorithm.