On mutual exclusion in faulty distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an extension of the fault-tolerant mutual exclusion algorithm of [1] to make it deadlock-free when a node requesting critical section or when a node executing its critical section fails. The proposed algorithm requires O(√tn) messages per critical section entry (in a network of n nodes) and O(t√tn) messages when a node fails (t − 1 is the upper bound of the node failures).