The elusive atomic register

  • Authors:
  • Ambuj K. Singh;James H. Anderson;Mohamed G. Gouda

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Santa Barbara;Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;Univ. of Texas, Austin

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We present a construction of a single-writer, multiple-reader atomic register from single-writer, single-reader atomic registers. The complexity of our construction is asymptotically optimal; O(M2 + MN) shared single-writer, single-reader safe bits are required to construct a single-writer, M-reader, N-bit atomic register.