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DC
2008
13 years 8 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 8 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