Using an Object-oriented Framework to Construct Wide-area Group Communication Mechanisms

Appeared in Proceedings of the 1994 Usenix Winter Technical Conferenc.

Abstract

      Many wide-area distributed applications, including distributed databases, can be implemented using a group communication mechanism. We have developed a family of weak-consistency group communication mechanisms, based on the timestamped anti-entropy communication protocol, that provides the scalability and fault-tolerance needed by wide-area systems. We discuss an object-oriented framework for constructing this kind of group communication mechanism, and how its components can be selected to take advantage of specific application semantics. We examine several design choices that we made in building two very different wide-area distributed database applications, and how this framework led to simple, efficient implementations in both systems.

Publication date:
January 1994

Authors:
Richard Golding
Darrell D. E. Long
John Wilkes

Projects:
Archival Storage

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{PISAC-Golding-1993,
  author       = {Richard Golding and Darrell D. E. Long and John Wilkes},
  title        = {Using an Object-oriented Framework to Construct Wide-area Group Communication Mechanisms},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 1994 Usenix Winter Technical Conferenc},
  month        = jan,
  year         = {1994},
}