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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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The well-tempered semaphore: theme with variations
This paper discusses differences in the semantics of various semaphore implementations and their ramifications in developing solutions to synchronization problems. An approach is ...
Kenneth A. Reek
EUROPAR
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Combinatorial Characterization of Properties Preserved by Antitokens
Balancing networks are highly distributed data structures used to solve multiprocessor synchronization problems. Typically, balancing networks are accessed by tokens, and the distr...
Costas Busch, Neophytos Demetriou, Maurice Herlihy...
ICPP
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Region Synchronization in Message Passing Systems
The development of correct synchronization code for distributed programs is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an aspect oriented technique for developing synchronizati...
Gurdip Singh, Ye Su
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Design patterns for semaphores
This paper describes two design patterns that are powerful tools to help teach how semaphores are used to solve synchronization problems. The patterns are general enough to be use...
Kenneth A. Reek
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improved single-round protocols for remote file synchronization
— Given two versions of a file, a current version located on one machine and an outdated version known only to another machine, the remote file synchronization problem is how t...
Utku Irmak, Svilen Mihaylov, Torsten Suel