A Study of Shared-Memory Mutual Exclusion Protocols using CADP
Abstract
Mutual exclusion protocols are an essential building block of concurrent systems: indeed, such a protocol is required whenever a shared resource has to be protected against concurrent non-atomic accesses. Hence, many variants of mutual exclusion protocols exist in the shared-memory setting, such as Peterson's or Dekker's well-known protocols. Although the functional correctness of these protocols has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to their nonfunctional aspects, such as their performance in the long run. In this paper, we report on experiments with the performance evaluation of mutual exclusion protocols using Interactive Markov Chains. Steady-state analysis provides an additional criterion for comparing protocols, which complements the verification of their functional properties. We also carefully re-examined the functional properties, whose accurate formulation as temporal logic formulas in the action-based setting turns out to be quite involved.
Domains
Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS] Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC] Formal Languages and Automata Theory [cs.FL] Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI] Modeling and Simulation Performance [cs.PF] Programming Languages [cs.PL] Software Engineering [cs.SE] Other [cs.OH]
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