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What is Livelock

Chapter 616
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A situation where packet movement exists in the network, but that does not constitute forward progress. For example, packets moving in circles for infinity constitute a livelock situation.
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On-Chip Networks for Modern Large-Scale Chips
George Michelogiannakis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch616
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Resource Co-Allocation in Grid Computing Environments
Situation where multiple processes keep trying to access multiple resources but none of them is able to.
Published in Chapter: Resource Co-Allocation in Grid Computing Environments; From: Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications
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