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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition

by Sukumar Ghosh
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
17h 49m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 11

Coordination Algorithms

11.1 Introduction

Distributed applications rely on specific forms of coordination among processes to accomplish their goals. Some tasks of coordination can be viewed as a form of preprocessing. Examples include clock synchronization, spanning tree construction, and leader election. In this section, we single out a couple of specific coordination algorithms and explain their construction. Our first example addresses leader election, where one among a designated set of processes is chosen as leader and assigned special responsibilities. The second example addresses a problem of model transformation: Recall that asynchrony is hard to deal with in real-life applications due to the lack of temporal guarantees—it ...

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