Title
An Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Scheme for DDBMS
Overview
A scheme using loosely synchronized clocks to achieve global
serialization, which requires low space overhead and no per-object disk
overhead. However it only performs well for low contention workloads.
Paper
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Maheshwari.
Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized
Clocks. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
Management of Data, San Jose, CA, May 1995. ACM.
Additional reading material
Books and papers on DDBMS and on distributed computing using Java.
Implementation details
Using Java to implement some of the main ideas on the paper, and compare
the scheme's liveness/fairness against another/some other concurrency
control scheme(s).