Consider data items x and y replicated across the sites as follows:

$($a$)$ Assign votes to each site and give the read and write quorum.

$($b$)$ Determine the possible ways that the network can partition and for each specify

in which group of sites a transaction that updates $($reads and writes$)$ x can be

terminated and what the termination condition would be$.$

$($b$)$ Repeat $($b$)$ for y$.$