Non-blocking binary search trees

  • Authors:
  • Faith Ellen;Panagiota Fatourou;Eric Ruppert;Franck van Breugel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;University of Crete and FORTH ICS, Heraklion, Greece;York University, Toronto, ON, Canada;York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper describes the first complete implementation of a non-blocking binary search tree in an asynchronous shared-memory system using single-word compare-and-swap operations. The implementation is linearizable and tolerates any number of crash failures. Insert and Delete operations that modify different parts of the tree do not interfere with one another, so they can run completely concurrently. Find operations only perform reads of shared memory.