A lock management framework for a class hierarchy tree

Abstract

In case of a hierarchical system (say an N-ary object tree), critical sections consisting of node or nodes in the tree structure are inter-dependent due to the ancestor-successor relationship - depending on the position of the node in the hierarchy. In this paper, we present an approach to achieve higher concurrency and better performance in a multi-threaded system that has such a hierarchical object tree to deal with. © 2013 Springer.