Adaptive solutions to the mutual exclusion problem

  • Authors:
  • Manhoi Choy;Ambuj K. Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA;Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Algorithms for mutual exclusion that adapt to the current degree of contention are developed. A filter and a leader election algorithm form the basic building blocks. The algorithms achieve system response times that are independent of the total number of processes and governed instead by the current degree of contention. The final algorithm achieves a constant amortized system response time.