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How Fast Can a Very Robust Read Be?

Guerraoui, Rachid  
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Vukolic, Marko
2006

This paper studies the time complexity of reading unauthenticated data from a distributed storage made of a set of failure-prone base objects. More specifically, we consider the abstraction of a robust read/write storage that provides wait-free access to unauthenticated data over a set of base storage objects with $t$ possible failures, out of which at most $b$ are arbitrary and the rest are simple crash failures. We prove a $2$ communication round-trip lower bound for reading from a {\em safe} storage that uses at most $2t+2b$ base objects, independently of the number or round-trips needed by the writer. We then prove the lower bound tight by exhibiting a {\em regular} storage that uses $2t+b+1$ base objects (optimal resilience) and features $2$ communication round-trips for both read and write operations.

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Author(s)
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Vukolic, Marko
Date Issued

2006

Subjects

Storage emulations

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Arbitrary failures

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Optimal resilience

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Time-complexity

Note

Elements of this paper appear in a paper with the same title in the Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'06), 2006.

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May 8, 2006
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/230061
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