摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide mutual exclusion techniques for use in a dynamic peer-to-peer environment. <P>SOLUTION: In an implementation, a method includes receiving, at each of a plurality of logical replicas, a request from a client. Each of the logical replicas includes a queue and is exclusively associated with one of the clients. The request is for accessing one of a plurality of resources. When a particular one of the logical replicas is exclusively associated with another one of the clients, the request is stored in the queue of the particular logical replica. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |