Implementation of a Flexible Membership Protocol on a Real-Time Ethernet Prototype
Paper in proceeding, 2007

This paper describes the implementation of a processorgroup membership protocol in an experimental real-time network. The protocol is appropriate for fault-tolerant distributed systems using TDMA for scheduling messages. It allows nodes to maintain a consensus on the operational state of all nodes, in the presence of node failures and restarts, as well as network failures. The protocol is based on the principle that, in a system of n nodes, each node must acknowledge the messages from k other nodes in the membership group, where k can assume values between 2 and n 1. Membership agreement is guaranteed if f k 1 failures occur during n consecutive transmission slots. We have implemented the membership protocol in a time-triggered network based on COTS Ethernet hardware, programmed to schedule messages according to the TDMA method.

Author

Raul Barbosa

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

Antonio Ferreira

Johan Karlsson

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

Procceding of PRDC 2007 IEEE 13th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, Dec. 17-19, 2007, Melbourne, Australia

342-347
0-7695-3054-0 (ISBN)

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Computer Engineering

Software Engineering

Information Science

ISBN

0-7695-3054-0

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10/6/2017