Stabilizing data-link over non-FIFO channels with optimal fault-resilience

  • Authors:
  • Shlomi Dolev;Swan Dubois;Maria Potop-Butucaru;Sébastien Tixeuil

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel;UPMC Sorbonne Universités & INRIA, France;UPMC Sorbonne Universités & INRIA, France;UPMC Sorbonne Universités & IUF, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Self-stabilizing systems have the ability to converge to a correct behavior when started in any configuration. Most of the work done so far in the self-stabilization area assumed either communication via shared memory or via FIFO channels. This paper is the first to lay the bases for the design of self-stabilizing message passing algorithms over unreliable non-FIFO channels. We propose an optimal stabilizing data-link layer that emulates a reliable FIFO communication channel over unreliable capacity bounded non-FIFO channels (the channel capacity is known to the protocol).