Practice - Distributed Mutual Exclusion: Coordinated Access to Shared Resources
Practice Questions
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What is distributed mutual exclusion?
💡 Hint: Think about why we need to prevent concurrent access.
Name a key advantage of centralized algorithms.
💡 Hint: Focus on how coordination is managed.
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What does mutual exclusion aim to prevent in distributed systems?
💡 Hint: Think about what issues arise when multiple processes access shared resources.
True or False: In a centralized mutual exclusion algorithm, any process can become the coordinator.
💡 Hint: Recall how the coordinator is established.
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Design a simple decentralized algorithm for mutual exclusion and identify how it handles multiple requests effectively.
💡 Hint: Consider how timestamps ensure order and fairness.
Propose solutions to avoid deadlock in a system implementing Ricart-Agrawala’s algorithm.
💡 Hint: Think of the conditions that lead to deadlock.
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