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Reducing Time Complexity in RFID Systems

Gildas Avoine, Philippe Oechslin, Etienne Dysli

Radio frequency identification systems based on low-cost computing devices is the new plaything that every company would like to adopt. Its goal can be either to improve the productivity or to strengthen the security. Specific identification protocols base ...

2006

Synchronizing without Locks is Inherently Expensive

Rachid Guerraoui, Hagit Albo Attiya

It has been considered bon ton to blame locks for their fragility, especially since researchers identified obstruction-freedom: a progress condition that precludes locking while being weak enough to raise the hope for good performance. This paper attenuate ...

2006

Transformations in distributed computations and applications to set agreement

Bastian Pochon

In a distributed application, high-availability of a critical online service is ensured despite failures by duplicating the vital components of the server. Whilst guaranteeing the access to the server at all times, duplication requires particular care, so ...

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The Alpha of Indulgent Consensus

Rachid Guerraoui

This paper presents a simple framework unifying a family of consensus algorithms that can tolerate process crash failures and asynchronous periods of the network, also called indulgent consensus algorithms. Key to the framework is a new abstraction we intr ...

2006

The Weakest Failure Detectors to Boost Obstruction-Freedom

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

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 when universal objects (like compare-and-swap) or random oracles are availab ...

2006

The Weakest Failure Detectors to Boost Obstruction-Freedom

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

2006

The Inherent Price of Indulgence

Rachid Guerraoui, Partha Dutta

This paper presents a tight lower bound on the time complexity of indulgent consensus algorithms, i.e., consensus algorithms that use unreliable failure detectors. We state and prove our tight lower bound in the unifying framework of round-by-round fault d ...

2005

Failure Location in Transparent Optical Networks: The Asymmetry Between False and Missing Alarms

Patrick Thiran, Xuan Hung Nguyen

Failure location in transparent optical networks is difficult because of the large amount of alarms that a failure can trigger and because of corrupted alarms. One problem that network operators often face is how to set the thresholds in monitoring devices ...

2005

New Attacks against Reduced-Round Versions of IDEA

Pascal Junod

In this paper, we describe a sequence of simple, yet e cient chosen-plaintext (or chosen-ciphertext) attacks against reduced-round versions of IDEA (with 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, and 4 rounds) which compare favourably with the best known attacks: some of them decre ...

2005

Lucky Read/Write Access to Robust Atomic Storage

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic, Ron Levy

This paper establishes tight bounds on the best-case time-complexity of distributed atomic read/write storage implementations that tolerate worst-case conditions. We study asynchronous robust implementations where a writer and a set of reader processes (cl ...

2005