A distributed algorithm for generalized deadlock detection

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Bracha;Sam Toueg

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PODC '84 Proceedings of the third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

An efficient distributed algorithm to detect deadlocks in distributed and dynamically changing systems is presented. In our model, processes can request any N available resources from a pool of size M. This is a generalization of the well-known AND-OR request model. The algorithm is incrementally derived and proven correct. Its communication, computational, and space complexity compares favorably with those of previously known distributed AND-OR deadlock detection algorithms.