Title :
A new approach of constructing information mutual exclusion in distributed systems
Author :
Lien, Hsiou-Mien ; Yuan, Shyan-Ming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
We present a decentralized, symmetric mutual exclusion algorithm in a computer network. The proposed algorithm has the same message complexity as that of the Maekawa´s O(√(N)) mutual exclusion algorithm ( Maekawa, 1985) and can be applied to arbitrary sizes of distributed systems. It is more suitable than Maekawa´s when the symmetry of a system is a criticism. In addition, our algorithm has smaller request set size than that of Gupta, Bruell and Ghosh´s (1987) mutual exclusion algorithm on a system of size 2n for some integer n
Keywords :
communication complexity; computer networks; concurrency control; distributed algorithms; arbitrary size; computer network; decentralized symmetric mutual exclusion algorithm; distributed systems; information mutual exclusion; integer; message complexity; smaller request set size; Clocks; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Hypercubes; Information science; Intelligent networks; Permission;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hsinchu
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6555-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.1994.590396
