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Conference Papers Year : 2016

Time-Efficient Read/Write Register in Crash-Prone Asynchronous Message-Passing Systems

Abstract

The atomic register is certainly the most basic object of computing science. Its implementation on top of an n-process asynchronous message-passing system has received a lot of attention. It has been shown that t < n/2 (where t is the maximal number of processes that may crash) is a necessary and sufficient requirement to build an atomic register on top of a crash-prone asynchronous message-passing system. Considering such a context, this paper visits the notion of a fast implementation of an atomic register, and presents a new time-efficient asynchronous algorithm. Its time-efficiency is measured according to two different underlying synchrony assumptions. Whatever this assumption, a write operation always costs a round-trip delay, while a read operation costs always a round-trip delay in favorable circumstances (intuitively, when it is not concurrent with a write). When designing this algorithm, the design spirit was to be as close as possible to the one of the famous ABD algorithm (proposed by Attiya, Bar-Noy, and Dolev).
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hal-02056397 , version 1 (05-03-2019)
hal-02056397 , version 2 (11-09-2024)

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Achour Mostefaoui, Michel Raynal. Time-Efficient Read/Write Register in Crash-Prone Asynchronous Message-Passing Systems. The 4th International Conference on Networked Systems, May 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. pp.250-265, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-46140-3_21⟩. ⟨hal-02056397v2⟩
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