An Introduction to the Renaming Problem

  • Authors:
  • Michel Raynal

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • PRDC '02 Proceedings of the 2002 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a brief introductionto the renaming problem for unfamiliar readers. In the renaming problem the processes have to acquire new namesfrom a small bounded space despite possible process crashes and asynchrony.The problem is first introduced. Thentwo solutions are presented. One considers the shared memory model, while the second considers the message-passingmodel.