Title :
Transis: a communication subsystem for high availability
Author :
Amir, Y. ; Dolev, D. ; Kramer, S. ; Malki, D.
Author_Institution :
Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract :
The authors describe Transis, a communication subsystem for high availability. Transis is a transport layer that supports reliable multicast services. The main novelty is in the efficient implementation using broadcast. The basis of Transis is automatic maintenance of dynamic membership. The membership algorithm is symmetrical, operates within the regular flow of messages, and overcomes partitions and remerging. The higher layer provides various multicast services for sets of processes.<>
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; protocols; Transis; automatic maintenance; broadcast; communication subsystem; dynamic membership; high availability; membership algorithm; partitions; reliable multicast services; remerging; transport layer; Availability; Broadcasting; Hardware; Intersymbol interference; Local area networks; Maintenance; Message passing; Network topology; Packaging; Protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1992. FTCS-22. Digest of Papers., Twenty-Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2875-8
DOI :
10.1109/FTCS.1992.243613
