2001/05/07 by Shlomi Dolev, Ted Herman, Dolev, Shlomi +1
Computer Science · #B.1.3 #B.8.1 #D.1.3 #D.4.5 #Distributed #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.DC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0105013
12 pages, uses eepic.sty
arxiv created 2001/05/07 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The first self-stabilizing algorithm [Dij73] assumed the existence of a central daemon, that activates one processor at time to change state as a function of its own state and the state of a neighbor. Subsequent research has reconsidered this algorithm without the assumption of a central daemon, and under different forms of communication, such as the model of link registers. In all of these investigations, one common feature is the atomicity of communication, whether by shared variables or read/write registers. This paper weakens the atomicity assumptions for the communication model, proposing versions of [Dij73] that tolerate various weaker forms of atomicity. First, a solution for the case of regular registers is presented. Then the case of safe registers is considered, with both negative and positive results presented. The paper also presents an implementation of [Dij73] based on registers that have probabilistically correct behavior, which requires a notion of weak stabilization.