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Shared-memory mutual exclusion: major research trends since 1986

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In 1986, Michel Raynal published a comprehensive survey of algorithms for mutual exclusion [72]. In this paper, we survey major research trends since 1986 in work on shared-memory mutual exclusion.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    James H. Anderson & Yong-Jik Kim

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa

    Ted Herman

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Correspondence to James H. Anderson.

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Received: June 2001, Accepted: January 2003,

Work supported by NSF grants CCR 9732916, CCR 9972211, CCR 9988327, ITR 0082866, and CCR 0208289.

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Anderson, J.H., Kim, YJ. & Herman, T. Shared-memory mutual exclusion: major research trends since 1986. Distrib. Comput. 16, 75–110 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00446-003-0088-6

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