Title :
Group communication in the Amoeba distributed operating system
Author :
Kaashoek, M. Frans ; Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstract :
Primitives for broadcast communication that have been integrated with the Amoeba distributed operating system are introduced. The semantics of the broadcast primitives are simple and easy to understand, but are still powerful. The proposed primitives, for example, guarantee global ordering of broadcast messages. The proposed primitives are also efficient: a reliable broadcast can be done in just slightly more than two messages, so the performance is comparable to a remote procedure call. In addition, the primitives are flexible; user applications can, for example, trade performance against fault-tolerance
Keywords :
network operating systems; Amoeba distributed operating system; broadcast communication; broadcast messages; broadcast primitives; fault-tolerance; global ordering; group communication; performance; reliable broadcast; remote procedure call; semantics; Application software; Casting; Data structures; Fault tolerance; Intersymbol interference; Mathematics; Operating systems; Protocols; Radio broadcasting; Satellite broadcasting;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1991., 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2144-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1991.148669
