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IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient Concurrency
Transactional memory is being advanced as an alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization for concurrent programming. Transactional memory simplifies the programming mode...
Takayuki Usui, Reimer Behrends, Jacob Evans, Yanni...
ACSC
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Flexible Exclusion Control for Composite Objects
We present a simple approach for implementing flexible locking strategies in a system of components, which may themselves be composite objects. The approach is flexible in that a ...
Abdelsalam Shanneb, John Potter
ICDE
2005
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Improving Preemptive Prioritization via Statistical Characterization of OLTP Locking
OLTP and transactional workloads are increasingly common in computer systems, ranging from ecommerce to warehousing to inventory management. It is valuable to provide priority sch...
David T. McWherter, Bianca Schroeder, Anastassia A...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
General and efficient locking without blocking
Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
DAIS
2003
13 years 7 months ago
A Variable Cache Consistency Protocol for Mobile Systems Using Time Locks
Abstract. By locally caching data, mobile hosts can operate while disconnected from the central server, however, consistency of data becomes more difficult to maintain. In this pap...
Abhinav Vora, Zahir Tari, Peter Bertók