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Termination Detection Protocols for Mobile Distributed Systems
June 2001 (vol. 12 no. 6)
pp. 558-566
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Yu-Chee Tseng, Cheng-Chung Tan, "Termination Detection Protocols for Mobile Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 558-566, June, 2001.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/71.932710,
author = {Yu-Chee Tseng and Cheng-Chung Tan},
title = {Termination Detection Protocols for Mobile Distributed Systems},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2001},
pages = {558-566},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/71.932710},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TI - Termination Detection Protocols for Mobile Distributed Systems
IS - 6
SN - 1045-9219
SP558
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EPD - 558-566
A1 - Yu-Chee Tseng,
A1 - Cheng-Chung Tan,
PY - 2001
KW - Distributed computing
KW - distributed protocol
KW - mobile computing
KW - operating system
KW - termination detection
KW - wireless network.
VL - 12
JA - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Abstract—This paper studies a fundamental problem, the termination detection problem, in distributed systems. Under a wireless network environment, we show how to handle the host mobility and disconnection problems. In particular, when some distributed processes are temporarily disconnected, we show how to capture a weakly terminated state where silence has been reached only by those currently connected processes. A user may desire to know such a state to tell whether the mobile distributed system is still running or is silent because some processes are disconnected. Our protocol tries to exploit the network hierarchy by combining two existing protocols together. It employs the weight-throwing scheme [9], [16], [21] on the wired network side, and the diffusion-based scheme [5], [13] on each wireless cell. Such a hybrid protocol can better pave the gaps of computation and communication capability between static and mobile hosts, thus more scalable to larger distributed systems. Analysis and simulation results are also presented.

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Index Terms:
Distributed computing, distributed protocol, mobile computing, operating system, termination detection, wireless network.
Citation:
Yu-Chee Tseng, Cheng-Chung Tan, "Termination Detection Protocols for Mobile Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 558-566, June 2001, doi:10.1109/71.932710
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