Lightweight Causal Cluster Consistency
Paper in proceeding, 2005

Within an effort for providing a layered architecture of services supporting multi-peer collaborative applications, this paper proposes a new type of consistency management aimed for applications where a large number of processes share a large set of replicated objects. Many such applications, like peer-to-peer collaborative environments for training or entertaining purposes, platforms for distributed monitoring and tuning of networks, rely on a fast propagation of updates on objects, however they also require a notion of consistent state update. To cope with these requirements and also ensure scalability, we propose the cluster consistency model. We also propose a two-layered architecture for providing cluster consistency. This is a general architecture that can be applied on top of the standard Internet communication layers and offers a modular, layered set of services to the applications that need them. Further, we present a fault-tolerant protocol implementing causal cluster consistency with predictable reliability, running on top of decentralised probabilistic protocols supporting group communication. Our experimental study, conducted by implementing and evaluating the two-layered architecture on top of standard Internet transport services, shows that the approach scales well, imposes an even load on the system, and provides high-probability reliability guarantees.

Author

Anders Gidenstam

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

Boris Koldehofe

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

Marina Papatriantafilou

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

Philippas Tsigas

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems (I2CS 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3908, Springer Verlag, 2006.

Vol. 3908 17 - 28

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10/6/2017