Title :
A replication protocol to support dynamically configurable groups of servers
Author :
Karamanolis, C.T. ; Magee, Jeff N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
The paper addresses the problem of dynamic configuration management of highly available services. In particular, we are concerned with services that are provided by a group of actively replicated servers and are used by a large, rapidly changing set of clients. In this system model, we propose a replication management protocol to facilitate the dynamic configuration management of the server group, while maintaining service state consistency. We argue about the correctness of the protocol and report on initial implementation results.
Keywords :
DP management; client-server systems; configuration management; protocols; actively replicated servers; dynamic configuration management; dynamically configurable server groups; highly available services; protocol correctness; rapidly changing clients; replication management protocol; service state consistency; Availability; Clocks; Communication channels; Communication switching; Corporate acquisitions; Educational institutions; Monitoring; Network servers; Protocols; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Configurable Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Annapolis, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7395-8
DOI :
10.1109/CDS.1996.509358
