In this paper, we study sixteen communication primitives, arising from the combination of four useful programming features: synchronism (synchronous vs asynchronous primitives), a...
Abstract. We present an in-depth discussion of the relationships between synchrony and asynchrony. Simple models of both paradigms are presented, and we state theorems which guaran...
We address the problem of the impossibility of implementing synchronous fault-tolerant service specifications in asynchronous distributed systems. We introduce a method for weaken...
Fault-tolerant time-triggered communication relies on the synchronization of local clocks. The startup problem is the problem of reaching a sufficient degree of synchronization a...
A Globally Asynchronous - Locally Synchronous (GALS) technique for application in wireless communication systems is proposed and evaluated. The GALS wrappers are based on a reques...