Pragmatic self-stabilization of atomic memory in message-passing systems

  • Authors:
  • Noga Alon;Hagit Attiya;Shlomi Dolev;Swan Dubois;Maria Potop-Butucaru;Sébastien Tixeuil

  • Affiliations:
  • Sackler School of Mathematics and Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Technion, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;LIP6, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6/INRIA, France;LIP6, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6/INRIA, France;LIP6, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6/INRIA, France

  • Venue:
  • SSS'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A fault-tolerant and stabilizing simulation of an atomic register is presented. The simulation works in asynchronous message-passing systems, and allows a minority of processes to crash. The simulation stabilizes in a pragmatic manner, by reaching a long execution in which it runs correctly. A key element in the simulation is a new combinatorial construction of a bounded labeling scheme accommodating arbitrary labels, including those not generated by the scheme itself.