NDLI: A simple algorithmic characterization of uniform solvability

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gafni, E.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	The Herlihy-Shavit (HS) conditions characterizing the solvability of asynchronous tasks over n processors have been a milestone in the development of the theory of distributed computing. Yet, they were of no help when researcher sought algorithms that do not depend on n. To help in this pursuit we investigate the uniform solvability of an infinite uniform sequence of tasks T/sub 0/, T/sub 1/, T/sub 2/,..., where T/sub i/ is a task over processors p/sub 0/, p/sub 1/,...,p/sub i/, and T/sub i/ extends T/sub i-1/. We say that such a sequence is uniformly solvable if there exit protocols to solve each T/sub i/ and the protocol for T/sub i/ extends the protocol for T/sub i-1/. This paper establishes that although each T/sub i/ may be solvable, the uniform sequence is not necessarily uniformly solvable. We show this by proposing a novel uniform sequence of solvable tasks and proving that the sequence is not amenable to a uniform solution. We then extend the HS conditions for a task over n processors, to uniform solvability in a natural way. The technique we use to accomplish this is to generalize the alternative algorithmic proof, by Borowsky and Gafni, of the HS conditions, by showing that the infinite uniform sequence of task of Immediate Snapshots is uniformly solvable. A side benefit of the technique is a widely applicable methodology for the development of uniform protocols.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Maht. Found. Comput. (TCMF) ACM/SIGACT
Starting Page	228
Ending Page	237
File Size	369695
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769518222
ISSN	02725428
DOI	10.1109/SFCS.2002.1181946
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-11-19
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Protocols Distributed computing Pursuit algorithms Computer science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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