quantumbooks

MIT Course Number: 6.852
Author: Lynch, Nancy A.
Isbn 13: 9781558603486
ISBN: 1558603484
Pub Date: Aug 1, 1997
Publisher: Academic Press
Shipping Weight: 4.00 pounds
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This book contains the most significant algorithms and impossibility results in the area, all in a simple automata-theoretic setting. The algorithms are proved correct, and their complexity is analyzed according to precisely defined complexity measures. The problems covered include resource allocation, communication, consensus among distributed processes, data consistency, deadlock detection, leader election, global snapshots, and many others. The material is organized according to the system model-- first by the timing model and then by the interprocess communication mechanism. The material on system models is isolated in separate chapters for easy reference. The presentation is completely rigorous, yet is intuitive enough for immediate comprehension. This book familiarizes readers with important problems, algorithms, and impossibility results in the area: readers can then recognize the problems when they arise in practice, apply the algorithms to solve them, and use the impossibility results to determine whether the problems are unsolvable. The book also provides readers with the basic mathematical tools for designing new algorithms and proving impossibility results. In addition, it teaches readers how to reason carefully about distributed algorithms-- to model them formally, devise precise specifications for their required behavior, prove their correctness, and evaluate their performance with realistic measures.
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