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

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

168

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Configurable Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Annapolis, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7395-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDS.1996.509358

Filename

509358