An adaptive collect algorithm with applications

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Attiya;Arie Fouren;Eli Gafni

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel;Department of Computer Science, The Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel;Computer Science Department, UCLA

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In a shared-memory distributed system, n independent asynchronous processes communicate by reading and writing to shared variables. An algorithm is adaptive (to total contention) if its step complexity depends only on the actual number, k, of active processes in the execution; this number is unknown in advance and may change in different executions of the algorithm. Adaptive algorithms are inherently wait-free, providing fault-tolerance in the presence of an arbitrary number of crash failures and different processes' speed.A wait-free adaptive collect algorithm with O(k) step complexity is presented, together with its applications in wait-free adaptive algorithms for atomic snapshots, immediate snapshots and renaming.