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Federated Learning Over Wireless Networks: Convergence Analysis and Resource Allocation

Vincent Gramoli

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning (FL), in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipment (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data. Despite its advan ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Reconfigurable Distributed Storage for Dynamic Networks

Vincent Gramoli, Seth Gilbert

This paper presents a new algorithm for implementing a reconfigurable distributed shared memory in an asynchronous dynamic network. The algorithm guarantees atomic consistency (linearizability) in all executions in the presence of arbitrary crash failures ...

2009

Democratizing Transactional Programming

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli

The Transaction abstraction is arguably one of the most appealing middleware paradigms. It lies typically between the programmer of a concurrent or distributed application on the one hand, and the operating system with the underlying network on the other h ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

A Speculation-Friendly Binary Search Tree

Vincent Gramoli

We introduce the first binary search tree algorithm designed for speculative executions. Prior to this work, tree structures were mainly designed for their pessimistic (non-speculative) accesses to have a bounded complexity. Researchers tried to evaluate t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Leaderless consensus

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Mihail Igor Zablotchi, Karolos Antoniadis, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron

Classic synchronous consensus algorithms are leaderless in that processes exchange proposals, choose the maximum value and decide when they see the same choice across a couple of rounds. Indulgent consensus algorithms are typically leader-based. Although t ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Byzantine consensus is Θ(n^2): the Dolev-Reischuk bound is tight even in partial synchrony!

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Seth Gilbert, Jovan Komatovic, Manuel José Ribeiro Vidigueira, Pierre Philippe Civit

The Dolev-Reischuk bound says that any deterministic Byzantine consensus protocol has (at least) quadratic (in the number of processes) communication complexity in the worst case: given a system with n processes and at most f < n/3 failures, any solution t ...

2023

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

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

It is known that the agreement property of the Byzantine consensus problem among n processes can be violated in a non-synchronous system if the number of faulty processes exceeds t0 = ┌n/3┐ − 1 [10], [19]. In this paper, we investigate the accountable Byza ...

IEEE2022

Why STM can be more than a Research Toy

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Aleksandar Dragojevic

Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which it enables to leverage multicores and outperform sequential code. A recent CACM ...

2011

Composing Relaxed Transactions

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Mihai Letia

As the classic transactional abstraction is sometimes considered too restrictive in leveraging parallelism, a lot of work has been devoted to devising relaxed transactional models with the goal of improving concurrency. Nevertheless, the quest for improvin ...

IEEE Computer Society2013

SONDe, a Self-Organizing Object Deployment Algorithm in Large-Scale Dynamic Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Gramoli

We present the design, correctness, and analysis of SONDe, a simple fully decentralized object deployment algorithm for highly requested systems. Given an object (service or data), SONDe provides a node with a constant upper bound (h) on the number of logi ...

2008

A Provably Starvation-Free Distributed Directory Protocol

Vincent Gramoli

This paper presents Combine, a distributed directory protocol for shared objects, designed for large-scale distributed systems. Directory protocols support move requests, allowing to write the object locally, as well as lookup requests, providing a read-on ...

Springer-Verlag2010

Extensible Transactional Memory Testbed

Vincent Gramoli

Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising abstraction as it hides all synchronization complexities from the programmers of concurrent applications. More particularly the TM paradigm operated a complexity shift from the application programming to the TM prog ...

2010

Rational Agreement in the Presence of Crash Faults

Vincent Gramoli

Blockchain systems need to solve consensus despite the presence of rational users and failures. The notion of (k, t)-robustness is key to derive impossibility results with k rational players and t faulty players. However, these t faulty players are always ...

IEEE2021

Cross-chain payment protocols with success guarantees

Vincent Gramoli

In this paper, we consider the problem of cross-chain payment whereby customers of different escrows-implemented by a bank or a blockchain smart contract-successfully transfer digital assets without trusting each other. Prior to this work, cross-chain paym ...

SPRINGER2023

On the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory

Vincent Gramoli

We present the Input Acceptance of Transactional Memory (TM). Despite the large interest for performance of TMs, no existing research work has investigated the impact of solving a conflict that does not need to be solved. Traditional solutions for a TM to ...

World Scientific Publishing2010

Elastic transactions

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli

This paper presents elastic transactions, an appealing alternative to traditional transactions, in particular to implement search structures in shared memory multicore architectures. Upon conflict detection, an elastic transaction might drop what it did so ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Slicing Distributed Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Gramoli

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are popular for tasks such as collaborative download, VoIP telephony, and backup. To maximize performance in the face of widely variable storage capacities and bandwidths, such systems typically need to shift work from poor ...

2009

Blockchain Double Spending with Low Mining Power and Network Delays

Vincent Gramoli

Traditional blockchain systems offer a secure way of tracking the ownership of digital assets as long as the attacker does not control a large portion of the overall computational or mining power. They typically require participants to generate a proof-of- ...

2024

Crime and Punishment in Distributed Byzantine Decision Tasks

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

A decision task is a distributed input-output problem in which each process starts with its input value and eventually produces its output value. Examples of such decision tasks are broad and range from consensus to reliable broadcast to lattice agreement. ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022