An efficient reliable broadcast protocol
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Providing high availability using lazy replication
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The process group approach to reliable distributed computing
Communications of the ACM
Fault-tolerant broadcasts and related problems
Distributed systems (2nd Ed.)
Reliable Distributed Computing with the ISIS Toolkit
Reliable Distributed Computing with the ISIS Toolkit
Computer supported cooperative software engineering with Beyond-Sniff
SEE '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Software Engineering Environment Conferences
An Environment for Automated Reasoning About Partial Functions
An Environment for Automated Reasoning About Partial Functions
Adding group communication and fault-tolerance to CORBA
COOTS'95 Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS)
Group-based multicast and dynamic membership in wireless networks with incomplete spatial coverage
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on protocols and software paradigms of mobile networks
Group Multicast in Distributed Mobile Systems with Unreliable Wireless Network
SRDS '99 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
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Many mobile computing applications can profit from process groups and reliable multicast communication to maintain replicated data, but most operating systems available today fail in providing the primitive operations needed by such applications. In this paper we describe a highly configurable, Generic Multicast Transport Service (GTS), which supports the implementation of group-based applications in wide-area settings. GTS is unique in that it offers fault-tolerant, order-preserving multicast on arbitrary communication protocols, including e-mail. As another distinguishing mark, messages can be sent to processes even when they are temporarily unavailable, which permits disconnected operation and mobility. We further propose an object-oriented system design consisting of adaptor objects interconnected to form a protocol tree. Adaptor objects offer a common interface to dissimilar communication protocols, and make it easy to incorporate new protocols into GTS. Currently, GTS is being used in a cooperative software engineering environment and in other projects. GTS is available for anonymous ftp.