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Generating Fast Indulgent Algorithms

Alistarh, Dan  
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Gilbert, Seth  
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Guerraoui, Rachid  
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2011
Proceedings of ICDCN 2011 (Best Paper Award)
12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2011)

Synchronous distributed algorithms are easier to design and prove correct than algorithms that tolerate asynchrony. Yet, in the real world, networks experience asynchrony and other timing anomalies. In this paper, we address the question of how to efficiently transform an algorithm that relies on synchronization into an algorithm that tolerates asynchronous executions. We introduce a transformation technique from synchronous algorithms to indulgent algorithms [1], which induces only a constant overhead in terms of time complexity in well-behaved executions. Our technique is based on a new abstraction we call an asynchrony detector, which the participating processes implement collectively. The resulting transformation works for a large class of colorless tasks, including consensus and set agreement. Interestingly, we also show that our technique is relevant for colored tasks, by applying it to the renaming problem, to obtain the first indulgent renaming algorithm.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-17679-1_4
Web of Science ID

WOS:000295993500004

Author(s)
Alistarh, Dan  
Gilbert, Seth  
Guerraoui, Rachid  
Travers, Corentin
Date Issued

2011

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa

Published in
Proceedings of ICDCN 2011 (Best Paper Award)
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Subjects

indulgent algorithms

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eventual synchrony

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consensus

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renaming

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set agreement

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
DCL  
Event name
12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2011)
Available on Infoscience
October 16, 2010
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