Abstract:The main purpose of mutual exclusion in a distributed environment is to control access to a shared resource. Large-scale distributed systems such as clouds or grids provide shared informatics resources to its clients. In this type of environment, Service Level Agreement (SLA) allows for the definition of a type of quality of service (QoS) between a resource provider and a client. This means that some constraints like priority, response time or reliability must be taken into consideration to maintain a good QoS… Show more
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