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A Fair Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm
June 2000 (vol. 11 no. 6)
pp. 537-549
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Sandeep Lodha, Ajay Kshemkalyani, "A Fair Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 537-549, June, 2000.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/71.862205,
author = {Sandeep Lodha and Ajay Kshemkalyani},
title = {A Fair Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {11},
number = {6},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2000},
pages = {537-549},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/71.862205},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TI - A Fair Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm
IS - 6
SN - 1045-9219
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EPD - 537-549
A1 - Sandeep Lodha,
A1 - Ajay Kshemkalyani,
PY - 2000
KW - Algorithm
KW - concurrency
KW - distributed system
KW - fairness
KW - mutual exclusion
KW - synchronization.
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Abstract—This paper presents a fair decentralized mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems in which processes communicate by asynchronous message passing. The algorithm requires between $N-1$ and $2(N-1)$ messages per critical section access, where $N$ is the number of processes in the system. The exact message complexity can be expressed as a deterministic function of concurrency in the computation. The algorithm does not introduce any other overheads over Lamport's and Ricart-Agrawala's algorithms, which require $3(N-1)$ and $2(N-1)$ messages, respectively, per critical section access and are the only other decentralized algorithms that allow mutual exclusion access in the order of the timestamps of requests.

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Index Terms:
Algorithm, concurrency, distributed system, fairness, mutual exclusion, synchronization.
Citation:
Sandeep Lodha, Ajay Kshemkalyani, "A Fair Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 537-549, June 2000, doi:10.1109/71.862205
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