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Membership information is used to provide a consistent, system-wide view of which processes are currently functioning or failed in a distributed computation. This paper describes a membership protocol that is used to maintain this information. Our protocol is novel because it is based on a multicast facility that preserves only the partial order of messages exchanged among the communicating processes. Because it depends only on a partial ordering of messages rather than a total ordering, our protocol requires less synchronization overhead. The advantages of our approach are especially pronounced if multiple failures occur concurrently.
This work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants CCR-8811923 and CCR-9003161, and the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-91-J-1015.
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Mishra, S., Peterson, L.L., Schlichting, R.D. (1992). A Membership Protocol Based on Partial Order. In: Meyer, J.F., Schlichting, R.D. (eds) Dependable Computing for Critical Applications 2. Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems, vol 6. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9198-9_15
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