Beernet: Building Self-Managing Decentralized Systems with Replicated Transactional Storage

  • Authors:
  • B. Mejías;P. Van Roy

  • Affiliations:
  • Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Distributed systems with a centralized architecture present the well known problems of single point of failure and single point of congestion; therefore, they do not scale. Decentralized systems, especially as peer-to-peer networks, are gaining popularity because they scale well, and do not need a server to work. However, their complexity is higher due to the lack of a single point of control and synchronization, and because consistent decentralized storage is difficult to maintain when data constantly evolves. Self-management is a way of handling this higher complexity. In this paper, the authors present a decentralized system built with a structured overlay network that is self-organized and self-healing, providing a transactional replicated storage for small or large scale systems.