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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Abhijeet Pareek , Philipp Woelfel

We study the self-stabilizing leader election problem in anonymous $n$-nodes networks. Achieving self-stabilization with low space memory complexity is particularly challenging, and designing space-optimal leader election algorithms remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Lelia Blin , Sylvain Gay , Isabella Ziccardi

This article addresses election in fully anonymous systems made up of $n$ asynchronous processes that communicate through atomic read-write registers or atomic read-modify-write registers. Given an integer $d\in\{1,\dots, n-1\}$, two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Damien Imbs , Michel Raynal , Gadi Taubenfeld

We study adversarial binary hypothesis testing under memory constraints. The test is a time-invariant randomized finite state machine (FSM) with S states. Associated with each hypothesis is a set of distributions. Given the hypothesis, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Malhar A. Managoli , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

The optimal space complexity of consensus in shared memory is a decades-old open problem. For a system of $n$ processes, no algorithm is known that uses a sublinear number of registers. However, the best known lower bound due to Fich,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Rati Gelashvili

In this study, we consider a class of linear matroid interdiction problems, where the feasible sets for the upper-level decision-maker (referred to as a leader) and the lower-level decision-maker (referred to as a follower) are induced by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

Online kernel selection is a fundamental problem of online kernel methods.In this paper,we study online kernel selection with memory constraint in which the memory of kernel selection and online prediction procedures is limited to a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Junfan Li , Shizhong Liao

The $k$-set agreement problem is a generalization of the consensus problem. Namely, assuming each process proposes a value, each non-faulty process has to decide a value such that each decided value was proposed, and no more than $k$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Zohir Bouzid , Michel Raynal , Pierre Sutra

The focus of this paper is to understand storage costs of emulating an atomic shared memory over an asynchronous, distributed message passing system. Previous literature has developed several shared memory emulation algorithms based on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Viveck R. Cadambe , Zhiying Wang , Nancy Lynch

Multireader shared registers are basic objects used as communication medium in asynchronous concurrent computation. We propose a surprisingly simple and natural scheme to obtain several wait-free constructions of bounded 1-writer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

We study the design of storage-efficient algorithms for emulating atomic shared memory over an asynchronous, distributed message-passing system. Our first algorithm is an atomic single-writer multi-reader algorithm based on a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Marwen Zorgui , Robert Mateescu , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Zhiying Wang

In this paper, we introduce two algorithms that solve the mutual exclusion problem for concurrent processes that communicate through shared variables, [2]. Our algorithms guarantee that any process trying to enter the critical section,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Jordi Bataller Mascarell

Emulating atomic read/write shared objects in a message-passing system is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. Considering that network communication is the most expensive resource, efficiency is measured first of all in terms of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Theophanis Hadjistasi , Nicolas Nicolaou , Alexander A. Schwarzmann

Determining the space complexity of $x$-obstruction-free $k$-set agreement for $x\leq k$ is an open problem. In $x$-obstruction-free protocols, processes are required to return in executions where at most $x$ processes take steps. The best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Faith Ellen , Rati Gelashvili , Leqi Zhu

Transactional memory (TM) is an inherently optimistic abstraction: it allows concurrent processes to execute sequences of shared-data accesses (transactions) speculatively, with an option of aborting them in the future. Early TM designs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Petr Kuznetsov , Srivatsan Ravi

The problem of electing a leader from among $n$ contenders is one of the fundamental questions in distributed computing. In its simplest formulation, the task is as follows: given $n$ processors, all participants must eventually return a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Dan Alistarh , Rati Gelashvili , Adrian Vladu

This paper concerns designing distributed algorithms that are singularly optimal, i.e., algorithms that are simultaneously time and message optimal, for the fundamental leader election problem in networks. Our main result is a randomized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shay Kutten , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg

Crary and Sullivan's Relaxed Memory Calculus (RMC) proposed a new declarative approach for writing low-level shared memory concurrent programs in the presence of modern relaxed-memory multi-processor architectures and optimizing compilers.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Michael J. Sullivan , Karl Crary , Salil Joshi

This paper is concerned with the problem of implementing an unbounded timestamp object from multi-writer atomic registers, in an asynchronous distributed system of n processors with distinct identifiers where timestamps are taken from an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-22 Maryam Helmi , Lisa Higham , Eduardo Pacheco , Philipp Woelfel

Safe memory reclamation (SMR) algorithms are crucial for preventing use-after-free errors in optimistic data structures. SMR algorithms typically delay reclamation for safety and reclaim objects in batches for efficiency. It is difficult to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ajay Singh , Trevor Brown , Michael Spear