A deadlock resolution algorithm
Volume 6, Issue 1 (1995), pp. 35–60
Pub. online: 1 January 1995
Type: Research Article
This work has been supported by the research grant no. UPV 224.310-EA061193 of the University of the Basque Country and by CICYT grant TIC93-0304.
Published
1 January 1995
1 January 1995
Abstract
In this paper we consider the problem of the distributed deadlock resolution. Starting from a high level specification of the problem and the resolution algorithm for a system with single request model, we provide successive levels of decreasing abstraction of the initial specification in order to achieve a solution in a complete distributed system. The successive refinements and the final distributed deadlock resolution algorithm are formaly described and proved by using the Input-Output Automata Model. The proposed solution is a modification of the algorithms in Mitchell and Merritt (1984) and Gonzalez de Mendívil et al. (1993) and preserves a similar message traffic to resolve a deadlock.