• DocumentCode
    2186617
  • Title

    Concurrent reading while writing II: The multi-writer case

  • Author

    Peterson, Gary L. ; Burns, James E.

  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    12-14 Oct. 1987
  • Firstpage
    383
  • Lastpage
    392
  • Abstract
    An algorithm is given for the multi-writer version of the Concurrent Reading While Writing (CRWW) problem. The algorithm solves the problem of allowing simultaneous access to arbitrarily sized shared data without requiring waiting, and hence avoids mutual exclusion. This. demonstrates that a quite complicated concurrent control problem can be solved-without eliminating the efficiency of parallelism. One very important aspect of the algorithm are the tools developed to prove its correctness. Without these tools, proving the correctness of a solution to a problem of this complexity would be very difficult.
  • Keywords
    Artificial intelligence; Cogeneration; Computer science; History; Parallel processing; Protocols; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1987., 28th Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0272-5428
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0807-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SFCS.1987.15
  • Filename
    4568292