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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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Anna University Regulation: 2021

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III Year/V Semester

QUESTION BANK (2 Marks & 16 Marks)

UNIT -3 (DISTRIBUTED MUTEX AND DEADLOCK)

Prepared By,

Mrs. K.M.ANNAMMAL, AP/CSE

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TWO MARKS
1. What is clock synchronization?
Nodes in distributed system to keep track of current time for various purposes such
as calculating the time spent by a process in CPU utilization ,disk I/O etc so that
the corresponding user can be charged. Clock synchronization means the time
difference between two nodes should be very small.

2.Explain the term mutual exclusion

A program object that blocks multiple users from accessing the same shared
variable or data at the same time. With a critical section, a region of code in which
multiple processes or threads access the same shared resource, this idea is put to
use in concurrent programming.

3.What is deadlock?
A Deadlock is a situation where a set of processes are blocked because each
process is holding a resource and waiting for another resource occupied by some
other process. When this situation arises, it is known as Deadlock. Deadlock.

4.Name the two types of messages used in Ricart-Agrawala's algorithm

The algorithm uses two types of messages: REQUEST and REPLY. A process
sends a REQUEST message to all other processes to request their permission to
enter the critical section. A process sends a REPLY message to a process to give
its permission to that process.

5.What are the conditions for deadlock?

The four necessary conditions for a deadlock situation are mutual exclusion, no
preemption, hold and wait, and circular set. There are four methods of handling
deadlocks - deadlock avoidance, deadlock prevention, deadline detection and
recovery, and deadlock ignorance.

6.Which are the three basic approaches for implementing distributed mutual
exclusion?

 Token-based approach.
 Non-token-based approach.
 Quorum-based approach.

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7.What are the requirements of mutual exclusion algorithms?

 No Deadlock: Two or more site should not endlessly wait for any message that will
never arrive.
 No Starvation: Every site who wants to execute critical section should get an
opportunity to execute it in finite time.

8.What is response time?

Response time includes the time taken to transmit the inquiry, process it by the
computer, and transmit the response back to the terminal.

9.What is wait for graph?

A wait-for graph in computer science is a directed graph used for deadlock
detection in operating systems and relational database systems.

10.What do you mean by deadlock avoidance?

Deadlock avoidance is another technique used in operating systems to deal with
deadlocks. Unlike deadlock prevention, which aims to eliminate the possibility of
deadlocks, deadlock avoidance focuses on dynamically detecting and avoiding
situations that could lead to deadlocks.

11.Define deadlock detection in distributed system?

Deadlock detection involves two basic tasks: maintenance of the state graph and
search of the state graph for the presence of cycles. Because in distributed systems
a cycle may involve several sites, the search for cycles greatly depends on how the
system state graph is represented across the system.

Part -B
1.Explain about Ricart Agrawala's Algorithm with an example
2.Analyse suzuki kasami's broadcast algorithm for mutual exclusion in distributed
system
3.Discuss with suitable example to show that a deadlock cannot occur if any one of
the four conditions is absent
4.Name and explain the different types of deadlock models in distributed system
with the commonly used strategies to handle deadlocks with a neat diagram.

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