Abstract. The mutual exclusion protocol presented ensures that whatever perturbation the network undergo, it regains consistency in nite time: one and only one privilege token is p...
A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
Distributedmultimedia applicationsrequire performanceguarantees from the underlying network subsystem. Ethernet has been the dominant local area network architecture in the last d...
Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has been generally regarded as an ideal network model for group communications because of its specialty of instant establishment. However, the securit...