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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.16
On Deterministic Linearizable Set Agreement Objects

Authors: Felipe de Azevedo Piovezan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 153, 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019)

Abstract
A recent work showed that, for all n and k, there is a linearizable (n,k)-set agreement object O_L that is equivalent to the (n,k)-set agreement task [David Yu Cheng Chan et al., 2017]: given O_L, it is possible to solve the (n,k)-set agreement task, and given any algorithm that solves the (n,k)-set agreement task (and registers), it is possible to implement O_L. This linearizable object O_L, however, is not deterministic. It turns out that there is also a deterministic (n,k)-set agreement object O_D that is equivalent to the (n,k)-set agreement task, but this deterministic object O_D is not linearizable. This raises the question whether there exists a deterministic and linearizable (n,k)-set agreement object that is equivalent to the (n,k)-set agreement task. Here we show that in general the answer is no: specifically, we prove that for all n ≥ 4, every deterministic linearizable (n,2)-set agreement object is strictly stronger than the (n,2)-set agreement task. We prove this by showing that, for all n ≥ 4, every deterministic and linearizable (n,2)-set agreement object (together with registers) can be used to solve 2-consensus, whereas it is known that the (n,2)-set agreement task cannot do so. For a natural subset of (n,2)-set agreement objects, we prove that this result holds even for n = 3.
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Felipe de Azevedo Piovezan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg. On Deterministic Linearizable Set Agreement Objects. In 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 153, pp. 16:1-16:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{deazevedopiovezan_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.16,
  author =	{de Azevedo Piovezan, Felipe and Hadzilacos, Vassos and Toueg, Sam},
  title =	{{On Deterministic Linearizable Set Agreement Objects}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-133-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{153},
  editor =	{Felber, Pascal and Friedman, Roy and Gilbert, Seth and Miller, Avery},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-118026},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asynchronous shared-memory systems, consensus, set agreement, deterministic objects}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.28
Optimal Register Construction in M&M Systems

Authors: Vassos Hadzilacos, Xing Hu, and Sam Toueg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 153, 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019)

Abstract
Motivated by recent distributed systems technology, Aguilera et al. introduced a hybrid model of distributed computing, called message-and-memory model or m&m model for short [Marcos K. Aguilera et al., 2018]. In this model, processes can communicate by message passing and also by accessing some shared memory. We consider the basic problem of implementing an atomic single-writer multi-reader (SWMR) register shared by all the processes in m&m systems. Specifically, we give an algorithm that implements such a register in m&m systems and show that it is optimal in the number of process crashes that it can tolerate. This generalizes the well-known implementation of an atomic SWMR register in a pure message-passing system [Attiya et al., 1995].
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Vassos Hadzilacos, Xing Hu, and Sam Toueg. Optimal Register Construction in M&M Systems. In 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 153, pp. 28:1-28:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{hadzilacos_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.28,
  author =	{Hadzilacos, Vassos and Hu, Xing and Toueg, Sam},
  title =	{{Optimal Register Construction in M\&M Systems}},
  booktitle =	{23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2019)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-133-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{153},
  editor =	{Felber, Pascal and Friedman, Roy and Gilbert, Seth and Miller, Avery},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-118148},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: asynchronous distributed system, shared memory, message passing}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.12
On the Number of Objects with Distinct Power and the Linearizability of Set Agreement Objects

Authors: David Yu Cheng Chan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 91, 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)

Abstract
We first prove that there are uncountably many objects with distinct computational powers. More precisely, we show that there is an uncountable set of objects such that for any two of them, at least one cannot be implemented from the other (and registers) in a wait-free manner. We then strengthen this result by showing that there are uncountably many linearizable objects with distinct computational powers. To do so, we prove that for all positive integers n and k, there is a linearizable object that is computationally equivalent to the k-set agreement task among n processes. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first linearizable objects proven to be computationally equivalent to set agreement tasks.
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David Yu Cheng Chan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg. On the Number of Objects with Distinct Power and the Linearizability of Set Agreement Objects. In 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 91, pp. 12:1-12:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{chan_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2017.12,
  author =	{Chan, David Yu Cheng and Hadzilacos, Vassos and Toueg, Sam},
  title =	{{On the Number of Objects with Distinct Power and the Linearizability of Set Agreement Objects}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-053-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{91},
  editor =	{Richa, Andr\'{e}a},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79973},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Set Agreement, Asynchronous System, Shared Memory}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.5
Bounded Disagreement

Authors: David Yu Cheng Chan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 70, 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016)

Abstract
A well-known generalization of the consensus problem, namely, set agreement (SA), limits the number of distinct decision values that processes decide. In some settings, it may be more important to limit the number of "disagreers". Thus, we introduce another natural generalization of the consensus problem, namely, bounded disagreement (BD), which limits the number of processes that decide differently from the plurality. More precisely, in a system with n processes, the (n, l)-BD task has the following requirement: there is a value v such that at most l processes (the disagreers) decide a value other than v. Despite their apparent similarities, the results described below show that bounded disagreement, consensus, and set agreement are in fact fundamentally different problems. We investigate the relationship between bounded disagreement, consensus, and set agreement. In particular, we determine the consensus number for every instance of the BD task. We also determine values of n, l, m, and k such that the (n, l)-BD task can solve the (m, k)-SA task (where m processes can decide at most k distinct values). Using our results and a previously known impossibility result for set agreement, we prove that for all n >= 2, there is a BD task (and a corresponding BD object) that has consensus number n but can not be solved using n-consensus and registers. Prior to our paper, the only objects known to have this unusual characteristic for n >= 2 (which shows that the consensus number of an object is not sufficient to fully capture its power) were artificial objects crafted solely for the purpose of exhibiting this behaviour.
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David Yu Cheng Chan, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Sam Toueg. Bounded Disagreement. In 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 70, pp. 5:1-5:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{yuchengchan_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.5,
  author =	{Yu Cheng Chan, David and Hadzilacos, Vassos and Toueg, Sam},
  title =	{{Bounded Disagreement}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-031-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{70},
  editor =	{Fatourou, Panagiota and Jim\'{e}nez, Ernesto and Pedone, Fernando},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-70742},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2016.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consensus, Set Agreement, Asynchronous System, Distributed Algorithms, Shared Memory}
}
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