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WHO'S ON BOARD? Probabilistic Membership for Real-Time Distributed Control Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, David Kozhaya

To increase their dependability, distributed control systems (DCSs) need to agree in real time about crashed hosts, i.e., they need a real-time membership service. In this paper, we prove that such a service cannot be implemented deterministically if, besi ...

Ieee2016

The Weakest Failure Detector for Eventual Consistency

Rachid Guerraoui, Pierre Sens

In its classical form, a consistent replicated service requires all replicas to witness the same evolution of the service state. Assuming a message-passing environment with a majority of correct processes, the necessary and sufficient information about fai ...

ACM Press2015

Safety-Liveness Exclusion in Distributed Computing

Rachid Guerraoui, Victor Bushkov

The history of distributed computing is full of trade-offs between safety and liveness. For instance, one of the most celebrated results in the field, namely the impossibility of consensus in an asynchronous system basically says that we cannot devise an a ...

ACM Press2015

Safety-Liveness Exclusion in Distributed Computing

Rachid Guerraoui, Victor Bushkov

ACM2015

Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data Structures

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasileios Trigonakis, Tudor Alexandru David

We introduce "asynchronized concurrency (ASCY),'' a paradigm consisting of four complementary programming patterns. ASCY calls for the design of concurrent search data structures (CSDSs) to resemble that of their sequential counterparts. We argue that ASCY ...

2015

Making BFT Protocols Really Adaptive

Rachid Guerraoui

Many state-machine Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been introduced so far. Each protocol addressed a different subset of conditions and use-cases. However, if the underlying conditions of a service span different subsets, choosing a single pr ...

IEEE2015

A Thrifty Universal Construction

Rachid Guerraoui, Cheng Wang

A universal construction is an algorithm which transforms any sequential implementation of an object into a concurrent implementation of that same object in a linearizable and wait-free manner. Such constructions require underlying low-level universal shar ...

2015

Byzantine Fireflies

Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer

This paper addresses the problem of synchronous beeping, as addressed by swarms of fireflies. We present Byzantine-resilient algorithms ensuring that the correct processes eventually beep synchronously despite a subset of nodes beeping asynchronously. We a ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2015

Byzantine Fireflies

Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer

2015

The Next 700 BFT Protocols

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic, Nikola Knezevic

We present Abstract (ABortable STate mAChine replicaTion), a new abstraction for designing and reconfiguring generalized replicated state machines that are, unlike traditional state machines, allowed to abort executing a client's request if "something goes ...

Association for Computing Machinery2015