A lightweight and scalable e-transaction protocol for three-tier systems with centralized back-end database

Author

Romano, Paolo ; Quaglia, Francesco ; Ciciani, Bruno

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf. e Sistemistica, Roma Univ., Italy

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1578

Lastpage

1583

Abstract

The e-transaction abstraction is a recent formalization of end-to-end reliability properties for three-tier systems. In this work, we present a protocol ensuring the e-transaction guarantees in case the back-end tier consists of a centralized database. Our proposal addresses the case of stateless application servers, and is both simple and effective since 1) it does not employ any distributed commit protocol and 2) does not require coordination among the replicas of the application server.

Keywords

Internet; database management systems; electronic commerce; protocols; transaction processing; centralized back-end database; e-transaction protocol; end-to-end reliability; stateless application server; three-tier system; transaction processing; Access protocols; Analytical models; Computer crashes; Delay; Distributed databases; Logic; Network servers; Proposals; Transaction databases; Index Terms- Transaction processing; efficient fail-over; reliability; three-tier systems.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-4347

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TKDE.2005.171

Filename

1512041