Publications related to Serialization

When is it safe to run a transactional workload under Read Committed?

The popular isolation level multiversion Read Committed (RC) exchanges some of the strong guarantees of serializability for increased transaction throughput. Nevertheless, transaction workloads can sometimes be executed under RC while still guaranteeing se ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Better Patch Stitching for Parametric Surface Reconstruction

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík, Zhantao Deng

Recently, parametric mappings have emerged as highly effective surface representations, yielding low reconstruction error. In particular, the latest works represent the target shape as an atlas of multiple mappings, which can closely encode object parts. A ...

IEEE2020

The PCL Theorem: Transactions cannot be Parallel, Consistent, and Live

Rachid Guerraoui, Victor Bushkov, Panagiota Fatourou

We establish a theorem called the PCL theorem, which states that it is impossible to design a transactional memory algorithm that ensures (1) parallelism, i.e., transactions do not need to synchronize unless they access the same application objects, (2) ve ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Distributed Transactional Systems Cannot Be Fast

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Junxiong Wang, Panagiota Fatourou

We prove that no fully transactional system can provide fast read transactions (including read-only ones that are considered the most frequent in practice). Specifically, to achieve fast read transactions, the system has to give up support of transactions ...

2019

Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity

Aleksandar Dragojevic, Georgios Chatzopoulos, Stanko Novakovic

Transactions can simplify distributed applications by hiding data distribution, concurrency, and failures from the application developer. Ideally the developer would see the abstraction of a single large machine that runs transactions sequentially and neve ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

IntegrCiTy - D2.3 Report - Enabling and integrating a common IT structure: Definition of a back-end layer architecture

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Jessen Page, Gillian Jean Bernard Basso

The concept of the IntegrCiTy platform is built around the development of a single application as a suite of independent software: project partners will mutualize a certain number of tools that shall be integrated in the IntegrCiTy platform. Therefore, a r ...

IPESE-EPFL2017

Impact of Data Serialization over TSVs on Routing Congestion in 3D-Stacked Multi-Core Processors

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Giulia Beanato

3D integration can alleviate routing congestion, reducing the wirelength and improving performances. Nevertheless, each TSV still occupies non-negligible silicon area: as the number of TSV increases, their effect on the chip routing is detrimental. The red ...

Elsevier2016

Language Support for Distributed Functional Programming

Heather Christine Klug

Software development has taken a fundamental turn. Software today has gone from simple, closed programs running on a single machine, to massively open programs, patching together user experiences byway of responses received via hundreds of network requests ...

EPFL2015

Safety, Liveness and Parallelism in Concurrent Computing

Victor Bushkov

The correctness of a shared object, which can be accessed by several processes concurrently, is specified through two different kinds of properties - safety and liveness. When implementing a shared object it is important to specify its correctness in a suc ...

EPFL2015

The PCL Theorem. Transactions cannot be Parallel, Consistent and Live

Rachid Guerraoui, Victor Bushkov, Panagiota Fatourou

We show that it is impossible to design a transactional memory system which ensures parallelism, i.e. transactions do not need to synchronize unless they access the same application objects, while ensuring very little consistency, i.e. a consistency condit ...

2014

Self-Assembly: Lightweight Language Extension and Datatype Generic Programming, All-in-One!

Heather Christine Klug, Philipp Haller

In this paper we show a general mechanism, called self-assembly, for lightweight language extensions (LLEs). LLEs allow users to define generic operations or properties that operate over a large class of types. With LLEs it is possible, for example, for us ...

2014

Fast, Nearly Optimal ISE Identification with I/O Serialization through Maximal Clique Enumeration

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Ajay Kumar Verma

The last decade has witnessed the emergence of the application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) as a viable platform for embedded systems. Extensible ASIPs allow the user to augment a base processor with instruction set extensions (ISEs) that exec ...

2010

Model checking transactional memories

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasu Singh

Model checking transactional memories (TMs) is difficult because of the unbounded number, length, and delay of concurrent transactions, as well as the unbounded size of the memory. We show that, under certain conditions satisfied by most TMs we know of, th ...

Springer Verlag2010

Completeness and Nondeterminism in Model Checking Transactional Memories

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasu Singh

Software transactional memory (STM) offers a disciplined concurrent programming model for exploiting the parallelism of modern processor architectures. This paper presents the first \emph{deterministic} specification automata for strict serializability and ...

Springer2008

Completeness and Nondeterminism in Model Checking Transactional Memories

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasu Singh

Software transactional memory (STM) offers a disciplined concurrent programming model for exploiting the parallelism of modern processor architectures. This paper presents the first deterministic specification automata for strict serializability and opacit ...

2008

Efficient Distributed Subtyping Tests

Rachid Guerraoui, Patrick Eugster, João Barreto

Subtyping tests are essential in typed publish/subscribe infrastructures, especially when the underlying programming language supports subtype conformance, as in Java or C#. These tests are particularly challenging when the publish/subscribe infrastructure ...

2007

A formal analysis of the deferred update technique

Rodrigo Malta Schmidt, Fernando Pedone

The deferred update technique is a widely used approach for building replicated database systems. Its fame stems from the fact that read-only transactions can execute locally to any single database replica, providing good performance for workloads where tr ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2007

Type-based event dissemination

Sébastien Bähni

With the explosion of broadband Internet connections in the late 80s, new types of applications, called distributed applications, came to light. These applications typically seek to provide a user with remote services that appear to that user as if they we ...

EPFL2006

Comparison of Database Replication Techniques Based on Total Order Broadcast

André Schiper, Matthias Wiesmann

In this paper, we present a performance comparison of database replication techniques based on total order broadcast. While the performance of total order broadcast-based replication techniques has been studied in previous papers, this paper presents many ...

2005