On the Uncontended Complexity of Consensus

Published: 01 Jan 2003, Last Modified: 13 Nov 2024DISC 2003EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Lock-free algorithms are not required to guarantee a bound on the number of steps an operation takes under contention, so we cannot use the usual worst-case analysis to quantify them. A natural alternative is to consider the worst-case time complexity of operations executed in the more common uncontended case.
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