Fault tolerance using group communication
Author(s) -
M. Frans Kaashoek,
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Publication year - 1990
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/504136.504146
Subject(s) - communication in small groups , computer science , fault tolerance , task (project management) , group (periodic table) , broadcast communication network , atomic broadcast , distributed computing , protocol (science) , computer network , mechanism (biology) , broadcasting (networking) , engineering , medicine , philosophy , chemistry , alternative medicine , organic chemistry , systems engineering , pathology , epistemology
We propose group communication as an efficient mechanism to support fault tolerance. Our approach is based on an efficient reliable broadcast protocol that requires on average only two messages per broadcast. To illustrate our approach we will describe how the task bag model can be made fault-tolerant using group communication.
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