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IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 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 6 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
13 years 1 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 8 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 4 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