Title :
Normality versus system mobility
Author :
Gradinariu, Maria
Author_Institution :
IRISA/Univ. Rennes 1, France
Abstract :
Normality, consistency criteria stronger than sequentiality and equivalent to linearizability for the unary operations case, has the main advantage that it avoids the use of the "global real-time ordering". This work presents the first algorithm that implements normality without using strong communication primitives (i.e. atomic broadcast or global clock synchronization). Moreover, our implementation allows the dynamic changes of the system configuration, handles replication and refers the general case of multi-object operations. Although the use of terms as client or server our algorithm is entirely based on a peer-to-peer approach.
Keywords :
client-server systems; distributed algorithms; synchronisation; wide area networks; atomic broadcast; client server; communication primitives; consistency criteria; global clock synchronization; global real-time ordering; multi-object operations; normality; peer-to-peer approach; system mobility; unary operations; Broadcasting; Clocks; Distributed algorithms; Distributed databases; Network servers; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Real time systems; Routing protocols; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2002. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1760-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.2002.1183399