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2010
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The mailbox problem
d Abstract) Marcos K. Aguilera1 , Eli Gafni1,2 , and Leslie Lamport1 1 Microsoft Research Silicon Valley 2 UCLA We propose and solve a synchronization problem called the mailbox pr...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Eli Gafni, Leslie Lamport
DC
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Towards worst-case churn resistant peer-to-peer systems
Abstract Until now, the analysis of fault tolerance of peerto-peer systems usually only covers random faults of some kind. Contrary to traditional algorithmic research, faults as w...
Fabian Kuhn, Stefan Schmid, Roger Wattenhofer
DC
2008
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The weakest failure detectors to boost obstruction-freedom
This paper determines necessary and sufficient conditions to implement wait-free and non-blocking contention managers in a shared memory system. The necessary conditions hold even...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Petr Kouznetsov
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DC
2006
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Performing work in broadcast networks
We consider the problem of how to schedule t similar and independent tasks to be performed in a synchronous distributed system of p stations communicating via multiple-access chan...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Andrzej Li...
DC
2006
14 years 10 months ago
On the inherent weakness of conditional primitives
Some well-known primitive operations, such as compare-and-swap, can be used, together with read and write, to implement any object in a wait-free manner. However, this paper shows ...
Faith Ellen Fich, Danny Hendler, Nir Shavit