Self-stabilizing wait-free clock synchronization:

Abstract: "Clock synchronization algorithms which can tolarate [sic] any number of processors that can fail by ceasing operation for an unbounded number of steps and then resuming operation (with or) without knowing that they were faulty are called Wait-Free. Furthermore, if they are also able...

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Hauptverfasser: Papatriantafilu, Marina (VerfasserIn), Tsigas, Philippas (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam 1994
Schriftenreihe:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam> / Department of Computer Science: Report CS 94,21
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract: "Clock synchronization algorithms which can tolarate [sic] any number of processors that can fail by ceasing operation for an unbounded number of steps and then resuming operation (with or) without knowing that they were faulty are called Wait-Free. Furthermore, if they are also able to work correctly even when the starting state of the system is arbitrary, they are called Wait-Fre, Self-Stabilizing. This work deals with the problem of Wait-Free, Self-Stabilizing Clock Synchronization of n processes in an 'in-phase' multiprocessor system and presents a solution with synchronization time O(n p2 s). The best previous solution has O(n p3 s) synchronization time
The idea of the algorithm is based on a simple analysis of the difficulties of the problem which helped us to see how to 'reparametrize' the O(n p3 s) previously mentioned algorithm in order to get the O(n p2 s) synchronization time solution. Both the protocol presented here and its analysis are very simple.
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