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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.33
Communication Requirements for Linearizable Registers

Authors: Raïssa Nataf and Yoram Moses

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 319, 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)

Abstract
While linearizability is a fundamental correctness condition for distributed systems, ensuring the linearizability of implementations can be quite complex. An essential aspect of linearizable implementations of concurrent objects is the need to preserve the real-time order of operations. In many settings, however, processes cannot determine the precise timing and relative real-time ordering of operations. Indeed, in an asynchronous system, the only ordering information available to them is based on the fact that sending a message precedes its delivery. We show that as a result, message chains must be used extensively to ensure linearizability. This paper studies the communication requirements of linearizable implementations of atomic registers in asynchronous message passing systems. We start by proving two general theorems that relate message chains to the ability to delay and reorder actions and operations in an execution of an asynchronous system, without the changes being noticeable to the processes. These are then used to prove that linearizable register implementations must create extensive message chains among operations of all types. In particular, our results imply that linearizable implementations in asynchronous systems are necessarily costly and nontrivial, and provide insight into their structure.
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Raïssa Nataf and Yoram Moses. Communication Requirements for Linearizable Registers. In 38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 319, pp. 33:1-33:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{nataf_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2024.33,
  author =	{Nataf, Ra\"{i}ssa and Moses, Yoram},
  title =	{{Communication Requirements for Linearizable Registers}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2024)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-352-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{319},
  editor =	{Alistarh, Dan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-212593},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2024.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: linearizability, atomic registers, asynchrony, message chains, real time}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.30
Null Messages, Information and Coordination

Authors: Raïssa Nataf, Guy Goren, and Yoram Moses

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 281, 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)

Abstract
This paper investigates the role that null messages play in synchronous systems with and without failures, and provides necessary and sufficient conditions on the structure of protocols for information transfer and coordination there. We start by introducing a new and more refined definition of null messages. A generalization of message chains that allow these null messages is provided, and is shown to be necessary and sufficient for information transfer in reliable systems. Coping with crash failures requires a much richer structure, since not receiving a message may be the result of the sender’s failure. We introduce a class of communication patterns called resilient message blocks, which impose a stricter condition on protocols than the silent choirs of Goren and Moses (2020). Such blocks are shown to be necessary for information transfer in crash-prone systems. Moreover, they are sufficient in several cases of interest, in which silent choirs are not. Finally, a particular combination of resilient message blocks is shown to be necessary and sufficient for solving the Ordered Response coordination problem.
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Raïssa Nataf, Guy Goren, and Yoram Moses. Null Messages, Information and Coordination. In 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 281, pp. 30:1-30:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{nataf_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2023.30,
  author =	{Nataf, Ra\"{i}ssa and Goren, Guy and Moses, Yoram},
  title =	{{Null Messages, Information and Coordination}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-301-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{281},
  editor =	{Oshman, Rotem},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-191564},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: null messages, fault tolerance, coordination, information flow, knowledge analysis}
}
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Brief Announcement
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.49
Brief Announcement: Null Messages, Information and Coordination

Authors: Raïssa Nataf, Guy Goren, and Yoram Moses

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 246, 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)

Abstract
This paper investigates how null messages can transfer information in fault-prone synchronous systems. The notion of an f-resilient message block is defined and is shown to capture the fundamental communication pattern for knowledge transfer. In general, this pattern combines both null messages and explicit messages. It thus provides a fault-tolerant extension of the classic notion of a message-chain. Based on the above, we provide tight necessary and sufficient characterizations of the generalized communication patterns that can serve to solve the distributed tasks of (nice-run) Signalling and Ordered Response.
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Raïssa Nataf, Guy Goren, and Yoram Moses. Brief Announcement: Null Messages, Information and Coordination. In 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 246, pp. 49:1-49:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{nataf_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2022.49,
  author =	{Nataf, Ra\"{i}ssa and Goren, Guy and Moses, Yoram},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Null Messages, Information and Coordination}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-255-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{246},
  editor =	{Scheideler, Christian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-172409},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: null messages, fault tolerance, coordination, information flow}
}
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