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On the Complexity of Adding Convergence

Alex Klinkhamer
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Ali Ebnenasir
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This paper investigates the complexity of designing Self-Stabilizing (SS) distributed programs, where an SS program meets two properties, namely closure and convergence. Convergence requires that, from any state, the computations of an SS program reach a set of legitimate states (a.k.a. invariant). Upon reaching a legitimate state, the computations of an SS program remain in the set of legitimate states as long as no faults occur; i.e., Closure. We illustrate that, in general, the problem of augmenting a distributed program with convergence, i.e., adding convergence, is NP-complete (in the size of its state space). An implication of our NP-completeness result is the hardness of adding nonmasking fault tolerance to distributed programs, which has been an open problem for the past decade.
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hal-01514662 , version 1 (26-04-2017)

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Alex Klinkhamer, Ali Ebnenasir. On the Complexity of Adding Convergence. 5th International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN), Apr 2013, Tehran, Iran. pp.17-33, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-40213-5_2⟩. ⟨hal-01514662⟩
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