Adapting the FT-CORBA Replication Management Service for Large-scale Distributed Systems

Author

Lung, Lau Cheuk ; Fraga, Joni Da Silva

Author_Institution

Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Parana, Curitiba

fYear

2007

fDate

11-13 July 2007

Firstpage

652

Lastpage

657

Abstract

The FT-CORBA specification, published by object management group, is not suited for supporting object replication in large-scale distributed systems. The inadequacy or the lack of definitions in this specification for scalability of fault-tolerant applications in those systems is the main motivation for this research. In this paper , we introduce the GroupPac, a free software that implements the FT-CORBA specification, and offers a set of extensions (including failure detection, group membership and group communication) that aims to face the scalability problem in large-scale distributed systems.

Keywords

distributed object management; fault tolerant computing; formal specification; public domain software; FT-CORBA replication management service; FT-CORBA specification; GroupPac; failure detection; fault-tolerant application; free software; group communication; group membership; large-scale distributed systems; object management group; object replication; scalability problem; Application software; Availability; Face detection; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Flexible manufacturing systems; Large-scale systems; Production facilities; Proposals; Scalability; CORBA; Fault tolerance; membership;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Science, 2007. ICIS 2007. 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2841-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIS.2007.49

Filename

4276456