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DC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
The weakest failure detectors to boost obstruction-freedom
This paper determines necessary and sufficient conditions to implement wait-free and non-blocking contention managers in a shared memory system. The necessary conditions hold even...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Petr Kouznetsov
DC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Failure detectors as type boosters
The power of an object type T can be measured as the maximum number n of processes that can solve consensus using only objects of T and registers. This number, denoted cons(T), is ...
Rachid Guerraoui, Petr Kouznetsov