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A N algorithm for mutual exclusion in decentralized systems

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Volume 3 , Issue 2 (May 1985) table of contents

Pages: 145 - 159

Year of Publication: 1985

ISSN:0734-2071

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Mamoru Maekawa

Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, 113 Japan

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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An algorithm is presented that uses only c√N messages to create mutual exclusion in a computer network, where N is the number of nodes and c a constant between 3 and 5. The algorithm is symmetric and allows fully parallel operation.

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