Highly-fair bakery algorithm using symmetric tokens

  • Authors:
  • Alex A. Aravind

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This note proposes a new version of the bakery algorithm that: (i) assures fair tie-breaking when two or more processes choose same token number; and (ii) bounds the token numbers within the range [-n,n]. The algorithm is simple and uses one additional shared bit.