A low-level processor group membership protocol for LANs

Author

Rodrigues, L. ; Verissimo, P. ; Rufino, J.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Lisboa, Portugal

fYear

1993

fDate

25-28 May 1993

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

550

Abstract

Presents a processor group membership protocol designed to run on top of a local area network. The protocol maintains information about a selected group of stations that explicitly join the protocol by keeping a replica of a global membership table at every member. Additionally, the protocol guarantees that a given station always occupies the same entry in the table. As a result, table indexes uniquely and universally identify a station and can thus be used as short identifiers. The interest of a processor group membership is twofold: it is a powerful auxiliary for process group membership management and it provides support for efficient message addressing

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; local area networks; protocols; real-time systems; table lookup; LANs; communication protocols; distributed algorithms; distributed systems; efficient message addressing; fault tolerance; global membership table; identifiers; information maintenance; local area network; low-level processor group membership protocol; network stations; process group membership management; real-time systems; replica; table indexes; Communication system traffic control; Energy management; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Local area networks; Marine vehicles; Media Access Protocol; Multicast protocols; Power system management; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3770-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1993.287669

Filename

287669