Totally Ordered Multicast in Large-Scale Systems
Luís Rodrigues, Henrique Fonseca and Paulo Veríssimo
Selected sections of this report will be published in the Proceedings
of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Hong Kong, May 1996.
Abstract
Totally ordered multicast protocols have proved to be extremely useful
in supporting fault-tolerant distributed applications. This paper
compares the performance of the two main classes of protocols
providing total order in large-scale systems (token-site and symmetric
protocols) and proposes a new dynamic hybrid protocol that, when
applied to systems where the topology/traffic patterns are not known a
priori, offers a much lower latency than any of the previous
classes of protocols in isolation.
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