Bully algorithm: Difference between revisions

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# If P hears from a process with a higher ID, P waits a certain amount of time for that process to broadcast itself as the leader. If it does not receive this message in time, it re-broadcasts the election message.

Note that if P receives a victory message from a process with a lower ID number, it immediately initiates a new election. This is how the algorithm gets it'sits name - a process with a higher ID number will bully a lower ID process out of the coordinator position as soon as it comes online.

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