Corona: A stabilizing deterministic message-passing skip list

  • Authors:
  • Rizal Mohd Nor;Mikhail Nesterenko;Christian Scheideler

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present Corona, a deterministic self-stabilizing algorithm for skip list construction in structured overlay networks. Corona operates in the low-atomicity message-passing asynchronous system model. Corona requires constant process memory space for its operation and, therefore, scales well. We prove the general necessary conditions limiting the initial states from which a self-stabilizing structured overlay network in a message-passing system can be constructed. The conditions require that initial state information has to form a weakly connected graph and it should only contain identifiers that are present in the system. We formally describe Corona and rigorously prove that it stabilizes from an arbitrary initial state subject to the necessary conditions. We extend Corona to construct a skip graph.