The Colored Ticket Algorithm

Upper and lower bounds are proved for shared space requirements for solution of a problem involving resource allocation among asynchronous processes. The problem is to allocate some number, k≥1, of resources, in an environment in which processes can fail by stopping without warning. Allocation is to...

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Main Authors: Fischer, Michael J., Lynch, Nancy A., Burns, James, Borodin, Allan
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149079
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Summary:Upper and lower bounds are proved for shared space requirements for solution of a problem involving resource allocation among asynchronous processes. The problem is to allocate some number, k≥1, of resources, in an environment in which processes can fail by stopping without warning. Allocation is to be as FIFO as possible, subject to variations imposed by the possibility of failures.