Kalpathy, Ravi; Mahmoud, Hosam M.; Rosenkrantz, Walter - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 83 (2013) 12, pp. 2743-2749
We consider the number of survivors in a broad class of fair leader election algorithms after a number of election rounds. We give sufficient conditions for the number of survivors to converge to a product of independent identically distributed random variables. The number of terms in the...