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How Fast Can a Very Robust Read Be?

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic

This paper studies the time complexity of reading unauthenticated data from a distributed storage made of a set of failure-prone base objects. More specifically, we consider the abstraction of a robust read/write storage that provides wait-free access to u ...

2006

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

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

Robust Emulations of Shared Memory in a Crash-Recovery Model

Rachid Guerraoui, Ron Levy

A shared memory abstraction can be robustly emulated over an asynchronous message passing system where any process can fail by crashing and possibly recover (crash-recovery model), by having (a) the processes exchange messages to synchronize their read and ...

2004

How fast can a distributed atomic read be?

Rachid Guerraoui, Ron Levy, Partha Dutta, Arindam Chakraborty

This paper addresses the problem of designing an efficient implementation of a basic atomic read-write data structure over an asynchronous message-passing system. In particular, we consider time-efficient implementations of this abstraction in the case of ...

2004

The Complexity of Asynchronous Byzantine Consensus

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic, Partha Dutta

This paper establishes the first theorem relating resilience, round complexity and authentication in distributed computing. We give an exact measure of the time complexity of consensus algorithms that tolerate Byzantine failures and arbitrary long periods ...

2004

Lower Bounds on Generic Broadcast Algorithms

André Schiper, Fernando Pedone

This paper establishes tight lower bounds on the time complexity of algorithms solving the generic broadcast problem. Generic broadcast assumes a symmetric, non-reflexive conflict relation on the set of messages, and requires ordered delivery only for conf ...

2004