Delay-Optimal Quorum Consensus for Distributed Systems

  • Authors:
  • Ada Waichee Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Given a set of nodes S, a coterie is a set of pairwise intersecting subsets of S. Each element in a coterie is called a quorum. Mutual exclusion in a distributed system can be achieved if each request is required to get consensus from a quorum of nodes. This technique of quorum consensus is also used for replicated distributed database systems, and bicoteries and wr-coteries have been defined to capture the requirements of read and write operations in user transactions. In this paper, we are interested in finding coteries, bicoteries, and wr-coteries with optimal communication delay. The protocols take into account the network topology. We design delay-optimal quorum consensus protocols for network topologies of trees, rings, and clustered networks.