Self-stabilization: randomness to reduce space

  • Authors:
  • Ted Herman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

It is shown that Dijkstra's k-state self-stabilizing protocol for mutual exclusion in a unidirectional ring can be converted to a 3-state protocol by replacing a counter with a random number generator.