Gu Z. Rendezvous in Distributed Systems. Theory,Algorithms and Applications 2017

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This book introduces novel solutions to the rendezvous problem in distributed systems, a fundamental problem that underpins the construction of many important functions in distributed systems and networks. The book covers rendezvous theories, distributed rendezvous algorithms, and rendezvous applications in practical systems, presents state-of-the-art rendezvous results and highlights the latest methods of rendezvous in distributed systems. It provides in particular an in-depth treatment of the blind rendezvous and oblivious blind rendezvous problems and their solutions. Further, it sheds new light on rendezvous applications in cognitive radio networks and rendezvous search in graphs. As such, it will also be of interest to readers from other research fields such as robotics, wireless sensor networks, and game theory.
Part I Distributed Rendezvous Theory
Distributed Systems
Distributed Computing
Rendezvous Theory
Rendezvous Categories
Part II Blind Rendezvous in Distributed Systems
Blind Rendezvous Problem
Asymmetric Blind Rendezvous Algorithms
Synchronous Blind Rendezvous Algorithms
Asynchronous Blind Rendezvous Algorithms for Anonymous Users
Local Sequence (LS) Based Rendezvous Algorithms
Blind Rendezvous for Multi-users Multihop System
Part III Oblivious Blind Rendezvous in Distributed Systems
Oblivious Blind Rendezvous
Asymmetric Oblivious Blind Rendezvous Algorithms
Oblivious Blind Rendezvous for Non-anonymous Users
Fully Distributed Rendezvous Algorithm for Non-anonymous Users
Oblivious Blind Rendezvous for Anonymous Users
Oblivious Blind Rendezvous for Multi-user Multihop CRN
Part IV Distributed Rendezvous Applications
Rendezvous in Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Networks
Rendezvous Search in a Graph
Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks
Conclusions and Future Works