On the uncontended complexity of anonymous agreement

Claire Capdevielle, Colette Johnen, Petr Kuznetsov, Alessia Milani

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Abstract

In this paper, we study uncontended complexity of anonymous k-set agreement algorithms, counting the number of memory locations used and the number of memory updates performed in operations that encounter no contention. We assume that in contention-free executions of a k-set agreement algorithm, only “fast” read and write operations are performed, and more expensive synchronization primitives, such as CAS, are only used when contention is detected. We call such concurrent implementations interval-solo-fast and derive the first nontrivial tight bounds on space complexity of anonymous interval-solo-fast k-set agreement.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)459-468
Number of pages10
JournalDistributed Computing
Volume30
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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