Mutual exclusion revisited

An Improved Token-Based and Starvation Free Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm

Distributed mutual exclusion is a fundamental problem of distributed systems that coordinates the access to critical shared resources. It concerns with how the various distributed processes access to the shared resources in a mutually exclusive manner. This paper presents fully distributed improved token based mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed system. In this algorithm, a process which...

College of Business Working Paper Series Exploration and Exploitation Revisited: Exploration and Exploitation Revisited: Extending March’s Model of Mutual Learning

When does a correct mutual exclusion algorithm guarantee mutual exclusion?

Dijkstra introduced mutual exclusion for an N -process system as the requirement “that at any moment only one of these N cyclic processes is in its critical section” [1]. This requirement, which we call true mutual exclusion, is still the standard definition of mutual exclusion. Mutual exclusion algorithms for shared-memorymultiprocessors do not guarantee true mutual exclusion. We give a simple...

A survey of permission-based distributed mutual exclusion algorithms

The problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems has attracted considerable attention over the last two decades. The mutual exclusion problem requires that, at a time, only one of the contending processes be allowed to enter its critical section (CS). A number of solutions have been provided to the mutual exclusion problem in distributed systems. Different algorithms have used different t...

The Mutual Exclusion Problem in Cellular Wireless Networks

The mutual exclusion (MX) paradigm can be used as a building block in many practical problems such as group communication, atomic commitment and replicated data management where the exclusive use of an object might be useful. The problem has been widely studied in the research community since one reason for this wide interest is that many distributed protocols need a mutual exclusion protocol. ...