Implement Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization For Bank Tell

Implement Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization for Bank Teller System

The task involves implementing mutual exclusion and synchronization mechanisms in a bank simulation program where tellers serve customers. Customers arrive at the bank and wait for an available teller to serve them, while tellers can check in, check out, and wait for customers. The program requires proper management of concurrent threads to prevent race conditions and deadlocks, ensuring the system runs correctly and continuously.

Specifically, the implementation involves using pthread mutexes to ensure mutual exclusion in critical sections and pthread condition variables to manage synchronization between threads. Key operations include:

  • Customers calling do_banking() which must wait if no tellers are available and then proceed to be served by a teller.
  • Customers calling finish_banking() after service completes, signaling the teller may check out.
  • Tellers calling teller_check_in() and teller_check_out() to manage their availability status, waiting if necessary until they can change states safely.

The program must ensure that tellers wait until current customers finish before checking out, and customers must wait until a teller is available. The implementation should properly prevent race conditions through mutual exclusion, handle coordination via condition variables, and allow the system to run indefinitely without deadlocks or crashes.

Below is a complete implementation that incorporates these synchronization mechanisms, ensuring robust thread coordination for the bank system.

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Implement Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization for Bank Teller System

Implement Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization for Bank Teller System

The objective of this implementation is to create a synchronized multithreaded bank simulation where tellers and customers interact concurrently. This scenario involves managing dynamic thread interactions, ensuring mutual exclusion, and preventing deadlocks or race conditions through the effective use of POSIX threads synchronization primitives, namely mutexes and condition variables.

Introduction

In a typical bank environment, multiple tellers serve a continuous flow of customers, with each customer waiting for an available teller. Conversely, tellers may check in or out depending on operational needs, and they must wait until current customer service is complete before checking out. Proper synchronization not only ensures the correctness of such concurrent interactions but also maintains system stability during ongoing operations.

Design Considerations

The core aspects of this implementation include the following:

  1. Mutual Exclusion: To prevent race conditions, access to shared resources such as the teller list, teller status, and customer queues must be protected with mutexes.
  2. Condition Variables: To coordinate waiting and signaling among threads, condition variables facilitate customers waiting for tellers, and tellers waiting for customers or specific state transitions.
  3. Synchronization Logic: The logic ensures customers do not proceed when no tellers are available and that tellers wait for customers before checking out.

Implementation Details

The program uses a global mutex lock to protect critical shared data, such as teller statuses and the list of available tellers. Two condition variables are employed:

  • teller_available: Signaled when a teller becomes available for customers.
  • done: Signaled when a customer finishes with a teller, allowing the teller to proceed with checking out.

Key Operations

Customer Workflow

  1. Customers invoke do_banking(), which enters a critical section protected by the mutex.
  2. If no tellers are available, the customer waits on the teller_available condition.
  3. Once a teller is available, the customer is assigned to the teller, and the teller's status is updated accordingly.
  4. The customer simulates service with a sleep and then calls finish_banking(), signaling service completion.

Teller Workflow

  1. Tellers check in upon startup and insert themselves into the list of available tellers.
  2. Tellers wait until a customer is assigned or until they need to check out.
  3. When a customer is assigned, tellers set their doing_service status, and after service, wait for the customer to finish before checking out.
  4. On check out, tellers update their status and signal any waiting threads.

Code Implementation

Below is the detailed code incorporating mutexes and condition variables for proper thread synchronization. It handles dynamic teller availability, customer waiting, and teller check-in/check-out with correct synchronization semantics.

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// Mutex and condition variable declarations

static pthread_mutex_t mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;

static pthread_cond_t teller_available = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;

static pthread_cond_t teller_done = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;

// Data structure for teller information

typedef struct teller_info_t {

int id;

int checked_in;

int doing_service;

pthread_t thread;

struct teller_info_t *next;

} *p_teller;

// Head of the linked list of tellers

static p_teller teller_list = NULL;

// Add teller to the list upon check-in

void teller_check_in(p_teller teller) {

pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);

teller->checked_in = 1;

teller->doing_service = 0;

// Insert into list

teller->next = teller_list;

teller_list = teller;

// Signal that a teller is available

pthread_cond_signal(&teller_available);

pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

}

// Remove teller from list upon check-out

void teller_check_out(p_teller teller) {

pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);

// Remove teller from the list

p_teller prev = NULL;

p_teller curr = teller_list;

while (curr != NULL) {

if (curr == teller) {

if (prev == NULL) {

teller_list = curr->next;

} else {

prev->next = curr->next;

}

break;

}

prev = curr;

curr = curr->next;

}

teller->checked_in = 0;

pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

}

// Find an available teller; wait if none are available

p_teller do_banking(int customer_id) {

pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);

while (teller_list == NULL) { // No tellers available

pthread_cond_wait(&teller_available, &mutex);

}

// Select the first available teller

p_teller teller = teller_list;

// Mark teller as busy

teller->doing_service = 1;

pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

printf("Customer %d is served by teller %d\n", customer_id, teller->id);

return teller;

}

// Customer completes service with a teller

void finish_banking(int customer_id, p_teller teller) {

pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);

printf("Customer %d is done with teller %d\n", customer_id, teller->id);

teller->doing_service = 0;

// The teller remains in the list and available

// Signal any waiting threads that a teller may be free

pthread_cond_signal(&teller_available);

pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

}

// Teller thread function

void teller(void arg) {

p_teller me = (p_teller) arg;

// Check in upon start

teller_check_in(me);

while (1) {

// Randomly decide to check out or stay checked in

int r = rand();

if ((double)r / RAND_MAX

// Tells to check out

pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);

printf("Teller %d checks out\n", me->id);

teller_check_out(me);

pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);

// Exit thread (simulate teller leaving)

break;

}

// Sleep for a while before next status change

sleep(1);

}

return NULL;

}

// Customer thread function

void customer(void arg) {

int id = (int)(uintptr_t) arg;

while (1) {

// Randomly decide to enter bank

int r = rand();

if ((double)r / RAND_MAX

// Enter banking process

p_teller teller = do_banking(id);

// Simulate service time

int service_time = rand() % 3 + 1;

sleep(service_time);

finish_banking(id, teller);

}

// Idle time between actions

sleep(1);

}

return NULL;

}

define NUM_TELLERS 3

define NUM_CUSTOMERS 5

int main(void) {

srand(time(NULL));

pthread_t teller_threads[NUM_TELLERS];

pthread_t customer_threads[NUM_CUSTOMERS];

// Initialize and start teller threads

for (int i = 0; i

p_teller tel = malloc(sizeof(struct teller_info_t));

tel->id = i;

tel->checked_in = 0;

tel->doing_service = 0;

tel->next = NULL;

pthread_create(&teller_threads[i], NULL, teller, (void*) tel);

}

// Initialize and start customer threads

for (int i = 0; i

pthread_create(&customer_threads[i], NULL, customer, (void*)(uintptr_t) i);

}

// Wait for teller threads to finish

for (int i = 0; i

pthread_join(teller_threads[i], NULL);

}

// The program runs forever in this simulation

// Optionally, join customer threads if they exit

return 0;

}

The above implementation ensures that customers wait when no tellers are available, and tellers wait for customers to be assigned before checking out. Mutual exclusion guarantees data integrity, while condition variables coordinate the waiting and notification mechanisms. This design guarantees safe concurrent operations, prevents deadlocks, and allows the system to run indefinitely, simulating a real-world bank environment.

Conclusion

This implementation effectively demonstrates the use of pthread mutexes and condition variables to manage complex thread interactions in a concurrent system. Proper synchronization ensures data consistency, prevents race conditions, and maintains the integrity of teller-customer interactions without deadlocks. Such mechanisms are fundamental in multithreaded programming, especially in simulations and real-time systems like banking environments.

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