A Fail-Aware Membership Service

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Abstract

We propose a new protocol that can be used to implement a partitionable membership service for timed asynchronous systems. The protocol is fail-aware in the sense that a process p knows at all times if its approximation of the set of processes in its partition is up-to-date or out-of-date. The protocol minimizes wrong suspicions of processes by giving processes a second chance to stay in the membership before they are removed. Our measurements show that the exclusion of live processes is rare and the crash detection times are good. The protocol guarantees that the memberships of two partitions never overlap.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages157-164
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1997
Peer-reviewedNo

Conference

Title1997 16th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Abbreviated titleSRDS 1997
Conference number16
Duration22 - 24 October 1997
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationRegal University Hotel
CityDurham
CountryUnited States of America

External IDs

Scopus 0031338220

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Keywords

  • Clocks, Protocols, Delay, Synchrosnization, Computer Science, Computer crashes, Marine vehicles, Workstations, fault tolerant computing, reliabililty, fail aware memberschip service, partionable membership service, timed asynchronous systems, wrong suspicions, second chance, life processes, crash detection times, asynchronous distributed sytems, time free asynchronous system model