Implementing a replicated service with group communication Export

@article{citeulike:933368, abstract = {Distributed computing systems are quickly pervading many aspects of everyday life. The public demand for high reliability of these systems can only grow, together with their penetration in critical application domains. Group communication is a technology that may greatly simplifying the deployment of reliable distributed applications, even in environments composed of off-the-shelf hardware and software components. In this paper we attempt to provide an introductory and unified view to group communication. To make the presentation concrete, we shall analyze in detail how group communication may help in implementing a highly-available service based on replication. We shall consider a service whose interface allows determining the outcome of a non-idempotent operation previously submitted to the service, e.g., an update, that returned prematurely at the client because of a communication error--a key practical problem. We shall also provide a discussion of the performance that can be obtained in practice with group communication platforms.}, author = {Bartoli, Alberto}, citeulike-article-id = {933368}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2003.11.003}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V1F-4BHK0B2-1/2/8104b64a6609513e10f02d6936c3694d}, doi = {10.1016/j.sysarc.2003.11.003}, journal = {Journal of Systems Architecture}, keywords = {2004, group\_communication, replication}, month = {August}, number = {8}, pages = {493--519}, posted-at = {2008-02-09 13:08:38}, priority = {5}, title = {Implementing a replicated service with group communication}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2003.11.003}, volume = {50}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:933368 L3 - citeulike-article-id:933368 N2 - Distributed computing systems are quickly pervading many aspects of everyday life. The public demand for high reliability of these systems can only grow, together with their penetration in critical application domains. Group communication is a technology that may greatly simplifying the deployment of reliable distributed applications, even in environments composed of off-the-shelf hardware and software components. In this paper we attempt to provide an introductory and unified view to group communication. To make the presentation concrete, we shall analyze in detail how group communication may help in implementing a highly-available service based on replication. We shall consider a service whose interface allows determining the outcome of a non-idempotent operation previously submitted to the service, e.g., an update, that returned prematurely at the client because of a communication error--a key practical problem. We shall also provide a discussion of the performance that can be obtained in practice with group communication platforms. IS - 8 JF - Journal of Systems Architecture EP - 519 TI - Implementing a replicated service with group communication VL - 50 SP - 493 KW - 2004 KW - group_communication KW - replication AU - Bartoli, Alberto PY - 2004/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2003.11.003 ER -