The RedBlue adaptive universal constructions

  • Authors:
  • Panagiota Fatourou;Nikolaos D. Kallimanis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina & FORTH-ICS, Crete Island, Greece;Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece

  • Venue:
  • DISC'09 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present the family of RedBlue algorithms, a collection of universal wait-free constructions for linearizable shared objects in an asynchronous shared-memory distributed system with n processes. The algorithms are adaptive and improve upon previous algorithms in terms of their time and/or space complexity. The first of the algorithms achieves better time complexity than all previously presented algorithms but it is impractical since it uses large LL/SC registers. This algorithm comprises the keystone for the design of the other RedBlue algorithms which are of practical interest. The second algorithm significantly reduces the size of the required registers and it is therefore practical in many cases. The last two algorithms work efficiently for large objects improving previous universal constructions for large objects presented by Anderson and Moir (PODC 1995).