A quorum-based self-stabilizing distributed mutual exclusion algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Mikhail Nesterenko;Masaaki Mizuno

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio;Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a self-stabilizing quorum-based distributed mutual exclusion algorithm. Our algorithm is designed for an asynchronous message-passing model. The algorithm scales well since it has constant synchronization delay and its message complexity is proportional to the square root of the number of processes in the system. The algorithm tolerates message loss. The algorithm places few assumptions on timeouts needed for its implementation. All this allows for a ready implementation of the algorithm on practical distributed architectures.