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IPPS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Weak Mutual Exclusion problem
In this paper we define the Weak Mutual Exclusion (WME) problem. Analogously to classical Distributed Mutual Exclusion (DME), WME serializes the accesses to a shared resource. Di...
Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues, Nuno Carvalho
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The weakest failure detector for wait-free dining under eventual weak exclusion
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Srikanth Sastry, Scott M. Pike, Jennifer L. Welch
DC
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Closing the complexity gap between FCFS mutual exclusion and mutual exclusion
First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) mutual exclusion (ME) is the problem of ensuring that processes attempting to concurrently access a shared resource do so one by one, in a fair order...
Robert Danek, Wojciech M. Golab
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Tractable Class of a Problem of Goal Satisfaction in Mutual Exclusion Network
In this paper we describe a class of a problem of goal satisfaction in mutual exclusion network that can be solved in polynomial time. This problem provides a common basis for rea...
Pavel Surynek
FGCS
2010
108views more  FGCS 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
The wandering token: Congestion avoidance of a shared resource
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...
Augusto Ciuffoletti