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On the average performance of synchronized programs in distributed networks

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Distributed Algorithms (WDAG 1990)

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A synchronizer is a compiler to transform a program for a synchronous network into a program for an asynchronous network. A simple synchronizer, which also represents a basic mechanism for distributed computing, was studied by Even and Rajsbaum in [ER1] and [ER2]. They studied the behavior of the synchronizer in networks with constant message transmission delays and processing times. Here we study the case in which the transmission delays and the processing times are random.

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  1. Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Sergio Rajsbaum & Moshe Sidi

  2. Department of Computer Science, Israel

    Sergio Rajsbaum & Moshe Sidi

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Israel

    Sergio Rajsbaum & Moshe Sidi

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Rajsbaum, S., Sidi, M. (1991). On the average performance of synchronized programs in distributed networks. In: van Leeuwen, J., Santoro, N. (eds) Distributed Algorithms. WDAG 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 486. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54099-7_8

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