Group communication: from practice to theory

  • Authors:
  • André Schiper

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM'06 Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Improving the dependability of computer systems is a critical and essential task. In this context, the paper surveys techniques that allow to achieve fault tolerance in distributed systems by replication. The main replication techniques are first explained. Then group communication is introduced as the communication infrastructure that allows the implementation of the different replication techniques. Finally the difficulty of implementing group communication is discussed, and the most important algorithms are presented.