On the interconnection of message passing systems

  • Authors:
  • A. Álvarez;S. Arévalo;V. Cholvi;A. Fernández;E. Jiménez

  • Affiliations:
  • Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universitat Jaume I, Campus de Riu Sec, 12071 Castellón, Spain;Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain;Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

One of the most important abstractions for designing distributed programs is the broadcast facility. In this paper, we study the interconnection of distributed message passing systems. We have shown that totally ordered systems cannot be properly interconnected in any form. However, we have provided a simple protocol to properly interconnect FIFO ordered systems.