CosNamingFT-a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service

Author

Lung, Lau Cheuk ; da Silva, Joni ; Farines, Fraga e Jean-Marie ; Ogg, Michael ; Ricciardi, Aleta

Author_Institution

Lab. de Controle e Microinf., Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

262

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service-CosNaming FT. Every CORBA object is accessed through its Interoperable Object Reference (IOR), which is registered with the CORBA name service. The name service therefore is a critical gateway to all objects in a distributed system; to avoid having a single point of failure, the name service should be made fault-tolerant. CosNamingFT uses the GroupPac package, a CORBA-compliant suite of protocols, to replicate the name server. GroupPac services are built from Common Object Services that function as building blocks to implement fault-tolerant applications. This paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of some of these object services and to demonstrate the importance of open solutions issues in replicating distributed objects

Keywords

distributed object management; fault tolerant computing; naming services; CORBA naming service; CosNamingFT; GroupPac package; Interoperable Object Reference; fault-tolerant; protocols; replicating distributed objects; Availability; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Identity-based encryption; Information science; Lungs; Open systems; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

ISSN

1060-9857

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0290-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1999.805101

Filename

805101