Title
Corrected Gossip Algorithms for Fast Reliable Broadcast on Unreliable Systems
Abstract
Large-scale parallel programming environments and algorithms require efficient group-communication on computing systems with failing nodes. Existing reliable broadcast algorithms either cannot guarantee that all nodes are reached or are very expensive in terms of the number of messages and latency. This paper proposes Corrected-Gossip, a method that combines Monte Carlo style gossiping with a deterministic correction phase, to construct a Las Vegas style reliable broadcast that guarantees reaching all the nodes at low cost. We analyze the performance of this method both analytically and by simulations and show how it reduces the latency and network load compared to existing algorithms. Our method improves the latency by 20% and the network load by 53% compared to the fastest known algorithm on 4,096 nodes. We believe that the principle of corrected-gossip opens an avenue for many other reliable group communication operations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/IPDPS.2017.36
2017 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
gossip algorithms,reliable broadcast
Broadcasting,Monte Carlo method,Algorithm design,Gossip algorithms,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Parallel computing,Communication in small groups,Gossip,Computer network,Computing systems,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-2075
978-1-5386-3915-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Torsten Hoefler12197163.64
Amnon Barak2590119.00
Amnon Shiloh310524.32
Zvi Drezner41195140.69