DMX in MANETs: major research trends since 2004

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous increase in the popularity of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The major computing challenges of distributed environment become more insidious when we try to address them in mobile ad hoc scenario. The distributed mutual exclusion (DMX) is one of the heavily researched topics of distributed computing. Although, a flurry of DMX protocols exists for static as well as cellular mobile distributed systems, the DMX in MANETs is comparatively less explored area of research. In 2004, Benchaiba et al. [7] presented a survey of the topic. Since then a considerable number of protocols have been published. The article presents an overview of the major contributions related to distributed mutual exclusion in MANETs, precisely after publication of the paper [7] in 2004.