Title :
A framework for highly available services based on group communication
Author :
Fekete, Alan ; Keidar, Idit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We present a framework for building highly available services. The framework uses group communication to coordinate a collection of servers. Our framework is configurable, in that one can adjust parameters such as the number of servers and the extent to which they are synchronized. We analyze the scenarios that can lead to the service availability being temporarily compromised, and we discuss the tradeoffs that govern the choice of parameters
Keywords :
client-server systems; computer network reliability; synchronisation; client server system; configurable framework; group communication; highly available services; server collection coordination; synchronization; Availability; Computer science; Context-aware services; Contracts; Costs; Fault tolerance; Motion pictures; Telegraphy; Telephony; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshop, 2001 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mesa, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1080-9
DOI :
10.1109/CDCS.2001.918687
