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Recent research on mutual exclusion for shared-memory systems has focused on "local spin" algorithms. Performance is measured using the "remote memory references" (RMRs) metric. As common in recent literature, we consider a standard…
We present a tight RMR complexity lower bound for the recoverable mutual exclusion (RME) problem, defined by Golab and Ramaraju \cite{GR2019a}. In particular, we show that any $n$-process RME algorithm using only atomic read, write,…
Recent advances in non-volatile main memory (NVRAM) technology have spurred research on designing algorithms that are resilient to process crashes. This paper is a fuller version of our conference paper \cite{jayanti:rmeabort}, which…
The abortable mutual exclusion problem was introduced by Scott and Scherer to meet a need that arises in database and real time systems, where processes sometimes have to abandon their attempt to acquire a mutual exclusion lock to initiate…
In light of recent advances in non-volatile main memory technology, Golab and Ramaraju reformulated the traditional mutex problem into the novel {\em Recoverable Mutual Exclusion} (RME) problem. In the best known solution for RME, due to…
We present the first recoverable mutual exclusion (RME) algorithm that is simultaneously abortable, adaptive to point contention, and with sublogarithmic RMR complexity. Our algorithm has $O(\min(K,\log_W N))$ RMR passage complexity and…
The test-and-set object is a fundamental synchronization primitive for shared memory systems. A test-and-set object stores a bit, initialized to 0, and supports one operation, test&set(), which sets the bit's value to 1 and returns its…
This paper gives tight logarithmic lower bounds on the solo step complexity of leader election in an asynchronous shared-memory model with single-writer multi-reader (SWMR) registers, for randomized obstruction-free algorithms. The approach…
We give improved separations for the query complexity analogue of the log-approximate-rank conjecture i.e. we show that there are a plethora of total Boolean functions on $n$ input bits, each of which has approximate Fourier sparsity at…
We study randomized test-and-set (TAS) implementations from registers in the asynchronous shared memory model with n processes. We introduce the problem of group election, a natural variant of leader election, and propose a framework for…
Studying distributed computing through the lens of algebraic topology has been the source of many significant breakthroughs during the last two decades, especially in the design of lower bounds or impossibility results for deterministic…
We study the complexity of a fundamental algorithm for fairly allocating indivisible items, the round-robin algorithm. For $n$ agents and $m$ items, we show that the algorithm can be implemented in time $O(nm\log(m/n))$ in the worst case.…
We prove an $\Omega(d \lg n/ (\lg\lg n)^2)$ lower bound on the dynamic cell-probe complexity of statistically $\mathit{oblivious}$ approximate-near-neighbor search ($\mathsf{ANN}$) over the $d$-dimensional Hamming cube. For the natural…
The verification of concurrent programs under weak-memory models is a burgeoning effort, owing to the increasing adoption of weak memory in concurrent software and hardware. Release/Acquire has become the standard model for high-performance…
This paper develops a new technique for proving amortized, randomized cell-probe lower bounds on dynamic data structure problems. We introduce a new randomized nondeterministic four-party communication model that enables "accelerated",…
We investigate whether there are inherent limits of parallelization in the (randomized) massively parallel computation (MPC) model by comparing it with the (sequential) RAM model. As our main result, we show the existence of hard functions…
Sorting extremely large datasets is a frequently occuring task in practice. These datasets are usually much larger than the computer's main memory; thus external memory sorting algorithms, first introduced by Aggarwal and Vitter (1988), are…
Timed automata and register automata are well-known models of computation over timed and data words respectively. The former has clocks that allow to test the lapse of time between two events, whilst the latter includes registers that can…
In this paper, we consider lower bounds on the query complexity for testing CSPs in the bounded-degree model. First, for any ``symmetric'' predicate $P:{0,1}^{k} \to {0,1}$ except \equ where $k\geq 3$, we show that every (randomized)…
We consider the question of distribution testing (specifically, uniformity and closeness testing) in the streaming setting, \ie under stringent memory constraints. We improve on the results of Diakonikolas, Gouleakis, Kane, and Rao (2019)…