L. Rodrigues and P. Veríssimo
This report will be published as a Chapter of the book, Recent Advances in Distributed Systems, S. Krakowiak and S. K. Shrivastava (editors) Springer Verlag LNCS vol. 1752. Copyright Springer-Verlag.
When designing communication protocols there is always a tradeoff between generality and performance. This chapter reports one approach to achieve right balance between these two aspects, using a network model that can be applied to the majority of existing large-scale networks based on reliable high-speed local-area networks interconnected by slower long-haul connections. The approach consists in making visible relevant topological aspects of the uderlying network infrastructure to the protocol designer, and is illustrated by several algorithms that use topology information to achieve improved performance.
@incollection{broadcast:topological,
author = "Rodrigues, L. and Ver\'{\i}ssimo, P",
booktitle = "Advances in Distributed Systems",
editor = "Krakowiak, S. and Shrivastava, S.",
chapter = "6",
pages = "127-156",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
series = "LNCS 1752",
title = "Topology-aware algorithms for large-scale communication ",
year = "2000",
}
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