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How to Allocate Tasks Asynchronously

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

Asynchronous task allocation is a fundamental problem in distributed computing in which p asynchronous processes must execute a set of m tasks. Also known as write-all or do-all, this problem been studied extensively, both independently and as a key buildi ...

IEEE2012

Gossiping in a Multi-Channel Radio Network (An Oblivious Approach to Coping With Malicious Interference)

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

We study oblivious deterministic gossip algorithms for multi-channel radio networks with a malicious adversary. In a multi-channel network, each of the n processes in the system must choose, in each round, one of the c channels of the system on which to pa ...

Springer2007

Of Malicious Motes and Suspicious Sensors

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

How efficiently can a malicious device disrupt communication in a wireless network? Imagine a basic game involving two honest players, Alice and Bob, who want to exchange information, and an adversary, Collin, who can disrupt communication using a limited ...

2006

Generating Fast Indulgent Algorithms

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

Synchronous distributed algorithms are easier to design and prove correct than algorithms that tolerate asynchrony. Yet, in the real world, networks experience asynchrony and other timing anomalies. In this paper, we address the question of how to efficien ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

The Wireless Synchronization Problem

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

In this paper, we study the wireless synchronization prob- lem which requires devices activated at different times on a congested single-hop radio network to synchronize their round numbering. We assume a collection of n synchronous devices with access to ...

2009

Generating Fast Indulgent Algorithms

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

Springer Verlag2012

As easy as ABC: Optimal (A)ccountable (B)yzantine (C)onsensus is easy!

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Seth Gilbert, Jovan Komatovic, Pierre Philippe Civit

In a non-synchronous system with n processes, no t(0)-resilient (deterministic or probabilistic) Byzantine consensus protocol can prevent a disagreement among correct processes if the number of faulty processes is > n - 2t(0). Therefore, the community defi ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Of Choices, Failures and Asynchrony: The Many Faces of Set Agreement

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

Set agreement is a fundamental problem in distributed computing in which processes collectively choose a small subset of values from a larger set of proposals. The impossibility of fault-tolerant set agreement in asynchronous networks is one of the seminal ...

Springer2009

Secure Communication Over Radio Channels

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

We study the problem of secure communication in a multi-channel, single-hop radio network with a malicious adversary that can cause collisions and spoof messages. We assume no pre-shared secrets or trusted-third-party infrastructure. The main contribution ...

2008

On the Complexity of Asynchronous Gossip

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

In this paper, we study the complexity of gossip in an asynchronous, message-passing fault-prone distributed system. In short, we show that an adaptive adversary can significantly hamper the spreading of a rumor, while an oblivious adversary cannot. In the ...

2008

On Fault Tolerance and Wireless Networks

Seth Gilbert

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2008

Fast Randomized Test-and-Set and Renaming

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh, Andrei Giurgiu

Most people believe that renaming is easy: simply choose a name \emph{at random}; if more than one process selects the same name, then try again. We highlight the issues that occur when trying to implement such a scheme and shed new light on the read-write ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2010

On the Message Complexity of Indulgent Consensus

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

Many recommend planning for the worst and hoping for the best. In this paper we devise efficient indulgent consensus algorithms that can tolerate crash failures and arbitrarily long periods of asynchrony, and yet perform (asymptotically) optimally in well- ...

Springer2007

Collaborative Scoring with Dishonest Participants

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

Consider a set of players that are interested in collectively evaluating a set of objects. We develop a collaborative scori ng protocol in which each player evaluates a subset of the objects, after which we can accurately predict each players’ individual o ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2010

Self-Stabilizing Mobile Robot Formations with Virtual Nodes

Seth Gilbert

2008

Online Topological Ordering

Seth Gilbert

2009

How to solve consensus in the smallest window of synchrony

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Dan Alistarh

This paper addresses the following question: what is the minimum-sized synchronous window needed to solve consensus in an otherwise asynchronous system? In answer to this question, we present the first optimally-resilient algorithm ASAP that solves consens ...

2008

Extensible Encoding of Type Hierarchies

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

2008