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Fast Lean Erasure-Coded Atomic Memory Object

Authors Kishori M. Konwar, N. Prakash, Muriel Médard, Nancy Lynch

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  • Theory of computation → Distributed computing models
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  • Atomicity
  • Distributed Storage System
  • Erasure-codes

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Abstract

In this work, we propose FLECKS, an algorithm which implements atomic memory objects in a multi-writer multi-reader (MWMR) setting in asynchronous networks and server failures. FLECKS substantially reduces storage and communication costs over its replication-based counterparts by employing erasure-codes. FLECKS outperforms the previously proposed algorithms in terms of the metrics that to deliver good performance such as storage cost per object, communication cost a high fault-tolerance of clients and servers, guaranteed liveness of operation, and a given number of communication rounds per operation, etc. We provide proofs for liveness and atomicity properties of FLECKS and derive worst-case latency bounds for the operations. We implemented and deployed FLECKS in cloud-based clusters and demonstrate that FLECKS has substantially lower storage and bandwidth costs, and significantly lower latency of operations than the replication-based mechanisms.

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Kishori M. Konwar, N. Prakash, Muriel Médard, and Nancy Lynch. Fast Lean Erasure-Coded Atomic Memory Object. In 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 153, pp. 12:1-12:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.12

Author Details

Kishori M. Konwar
  • Department of EECS, MIT, Cambridge, USA
N. Prakash
  • Intel Inc, OR, USA
Muriel Médard
  • Department of EECS, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Nancy Lynch
  • Department of EECS, MIT, Cambridge, USA

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