Large Scale Distribution Support for Cooperative Applications

F. Cosquer and P. Veríssimo

Published in the Proceedings of the European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, L'Alpe d'Huez, France, April 3-7, 1995.

Abstract

Cooperative applications usually require the ability to reliably disseminate information. Providing large scale support means inevitably, tackling problems such as temporary unreachability, often leading to partition failures. This paper presents a framework targetted at experimenting application-specific partition-processing strategies. One key design issue is to combine application semantics/attributes and/with the services of modern group-based communication subsystems. We show that this approach is promising with the view to providing partition support for distributed synchronised applications.

Keywords: Cooperative work, Group-based systems, Large Scale Distributed Systems, Partition failure.

Also available as INESC AR/02-95 (gzip postscript).