MAINTAINING WEAKLY-CONSISTENT REPLICATED DATA ON DYNAMIC GROUPS OF COMPUTERS.

Ariel J. Frank, Larry D. Wittie, Arthur J. Bernstein

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Abstract

Algorithms that sacrifice serializability can attain high availability of weakly consistent copies of data. Previous work for static groups of computers is extended by showing how to maintain replicated data on dynamic groups with changing membership sets. A dynamic group is more suited to large, unreliable communication networks than is a static group. It is explained how to organized dynamic groups using mainly synchronous messages. Each member maintains a list of currently known group members as replicated data. Group members exchange messages frequently enough to keep their local copies consistent. A similar mechanism can easily maintain replicated user data on a dynamic group.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
EditorsDouglas DeGroot
PublisherIEEE
Pages155-162
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)0818606371
StatePublished - 1985
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
ISSN (Print)0190-3918

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