On this page, you will find all the most important and most asked previous year questions from unit 2 Distributed Mutual Exclusion of the Distributed System subject.
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Topic : Distributed Mutual Exclusion (Key Note and Questions)
Questions
- What do you mean by mutual exclusion? Explain . Also write the requirements of mutual exclusion.
- Is mutual exclusion problem more complex in distributed system than single computer system? Justify your answer.
- Explain token and non-token based algorithm. Write its merit and demerits.
- Write the different between token and non-token based algorithm.
- Write and explain a token based algorithm for mutual exclusion . Describe its performance on important metrics.
- Explain the Ricart-Algorithm for mutual exclusion. How many messages per critical section execution are required ?
- Explain Mackawa’s algorithm.
- Explain Singhal’s heuristic algorithm.
- What are the performance metrics for mutual exclusion algorithm.
- Explain Raymond’s tree-based algorithm.
Topic : Distributed Deadlock Detection (Key Note and Questions)
Questions
- What do you mean by Deadlock? Write the necessary conditions for the occurrence of deadlock in distributed system?
- Differentiate resource deadlock and communication deadlock.
- Explain the assumption model for deadlock detection.
- What is deadlock? What are the necessary conditions for the occurrence of deadlock in distributed system? Describe the deadlock handling strategies in distributed system.
- Write the deadlock handling strategy in distributed system. What are the difference between centralized ,distributed and hierarchical control oraganizations for distributed deadlock detection.
- Classify the deadlock detection algorithms. Describe the Obermarck’s path pushing deadlock detection algorithm.
- Explain the deadlock avoidance algorithm. Also describe edge chasing deadlock detection algorithm.
- Explain the Menasce-Muntz algorithm and The Ho-Ramamoorthy algorithm.
Topic : Message Passing Systems (Key Note and Questions)
- What is vector clock? How this maintains causal ordering ? Explain.
- Explain the implementation rule of vector clock. Give the advantage of vector clock over Lamport’s logical clock.
- Discuss causal ordering of messages. Give any algorithm which can order the messages according to causal dependencies.
- SES protocol.
- BSS Protocol.
- Explain global state with the help of an example.
- What is termination detection in distributed system? Explain any algorithm for termination detection.
- Why is scalability and important feature in the design of distributed system? Discuss some of the guiding principles for designing a scalable distributed system.
