Mutual exclusion and its variants survey in MANETs

Mutual exclusion is a classical problem which prevents simultaneous access to a shared resource. In recent years, several number of algorithms has been proposed for the problems o f Mutual Exclusion in MANETs. Different variants of mutual exclusion has also been proposed and solved. Some researchers have done the survey of various proposed mutual exclusion algorithm, however no survey of mutual exclusion and its variants has been proposed. In 2011, Sharmaetal. [8] presented a survey of distributed mutual exclusion in MANETs. Since then a considerable number of algorithms on variants o f mutual exclusion has been presented. This exposition presents the survey of mutual exclusion and its variants in MANETs.