Undo-based access control for distributed collaborative editors

  • Authors:
  • Asma Cherif;Abdessamad Imine

  • Affiliations:
  • Nancy University and INRIA Grand-Est, France;Nancy University and INRIA Grand-Est, France

  • Venue:
  • CDVE'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

When adding access control layer to a replication based Distributed Collaborative Editor (DCE), ensuring convergence to the same copy of the shared document becomes a challenging problem. We consider here an optimistic access control in the sense that temporarily access right violation is tolerated [3]. This leads to data divergence. To maintain convergence, updates violating access rightsmust be undone.However, undo approachmay itself lead to divergence cases called undo puzzles [6]. In this paper, we address undo as themain feature in an optimistic access-control-basedDCE.We also showhowwe can avoid several known undo puzzles and present additional ones. We propose a new generic solution for these puzzles and provide performance measurements of our undo command.