Broadcasting messages in fault-tolerant distributed systems: the benefit of handling input-triggered and output-triggered suspicions differently

This paper investigates the two main and seemingly antagonistic approaches to broadcasting messages reliably in fault-tolerant distributed systems: the approach based on reliable broadcast, and that based on view synchronous communication (or VSC for short). While VSC does more than reliable broadca...

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Main Authors: Charron-Bost, B., Defago, X., Schiper, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Broadcasting
Computer crashes
Computer science
control theory
systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Context
Exact sciences and technology
Fault tolerant systems
Radiocommunications
Reliability theory
Software
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
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Summary:This paper investigates the two main and seemingly antagonistic approaches to broadcasting messages reliably in fault-tolerant distributed systems: the approach based on reliable broadcast, and that based on view synchronous communication (or VSC for short). While VSC does more than reliable broadcast, this has a cost. We show that this cost can be reduced by exploiting the difference between input-triggered and output-triggered suspicions, and by replacing the standard VSC broadcast primitive by two broadcast primitives, one sensitive to input-triggered suspicions, and the other sensitive to output-triggered suspicions.
ISSN:1060-9857
2575-8462
DOI:10.1109/RELDIS.2002.1180193