Message complexity of the tree quorum algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion
Her-Kun Chang, Shyan‐Ming Yuan · 2002
The tree quorum algorithm (TQA), which logically organizes the sites in a system into a tree, is an efficient and fault-tolerant solution for distributed mutual exclusion. Quorum size can be reduced to log N in the best case of TQA. In this paper, message complexity of TQA is analyzed. Moreover, it is shown that the ratio of message complexity to quorum size converges to 1/p, where p is the probability that a site is operational.>