Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming / Edition 1

by Gadi Taubenfeld

Overview

The first textbook that focuses purely on Synchronization - a fundamental challenge in Computer Science that is fast becoming a major performance and design issue for concurrent programming on modern architectures, and for the design of distributed systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131972599
Publisher:	Prentice Hall
Publication date:	08/03/2006
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gadi Taubenfeld is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He is an established authority in the area of concurrent and distributed computing and has published widely in leading journals and conferences. He was the head of the computer science division at Israel’s Open University; member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories; consultant to AT&T Labs - Research; and a research scientist and lecturer at Yale University. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Preface

Key Features

1. Introduction

2. Mutual exclusion using atomic registers: basic topics

3. Mutual exclusion using atomic registers: advanced topics

4. Blocking and non-blocking synchronization

5. Barrier synchronization

6. The l-exclusion problem

7. Multiple resources

8. Classical synchronization problems

9. Consensus

10. Timing-based algorithms

Bibliography

Index