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Distributed Mutual Exclusion
Process coordination in a multitasking OS – Race condition: several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of…
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Logical time and logical clocks
Instead of synchronizing clocks, event ordering can be used If two events occurred at the same process pi (i = 1, 2, … N)…
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Causal ordering
Causal ordering is a vital tool for thinking about distributed systems. Once you understand it, many other concepts become much…
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Group communication
A multicast operation is more appropriate – this is an operation that sends a single message from one process to each of the…
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Global Name Service (GNS)
Designed and implemented by Lampson and colleagues at the DEC Systems Research Center (1986) Provide facilities for resource location, email…
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Synchronizing physical clocks
Two models of synchronization 1) External synchronization 2) Internal synchronization External synchronization: a computer‘s clock Ci is synchronized with an external authoritative time…
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CLOCKS, EVENTS AND PROCESS STATES
Each process executes on a single processor, and the processors do not share memory (Chapter 6 briefly considered the case…
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Physical, Logical, and Vector Clocks
Interactions within a Distributed System between 2 processes, P1 and P2. Distributed systems offer us the ability to solve problems…
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Global States
It is often desirable to determine whether a particular property is true of a distributed system as it executes. We’d…
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distributed computing
Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are shared among multiple computers to improve efficiency…
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Design Issues of Distributed System
The distributed information system is defined as “a number of interdependent computers linked by a network for sharing information among…
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous
The send, receive, and reply operations may be synchronous or asynchronous. A synchronous operation blocks a process till the operation completes. An asynchronous operation is non-blocking and only initiates the operation. The caller…