The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using process groups to implement failure detection in asynchronous environments
PODC '91 Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Lightweight causal and atomic group multicast
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Totem single-ring ordering and membership protocol
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A system for constructing configurable high-level protocols
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Transis approach to high availability cluster communication
Communications of the ACM
Horus: a flexible group communication system
Communications of the ACM
A Secure Group Membership Protocol
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Processor Membership in Asynchronous Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A Fast and General Implementation of Mach IPC in a Network
USENIX MACH III Symposium
A High Performance Totally Ordered Multicast Protocol
Selected Papers from the International Workshop on Theory and Practice in Distributed Systems
Implementing Fault-Tolerant Applications Using Reflective Object-Oriented Programming
FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Coyote: a system for constructing fine-grain configurable communication services
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Real-Time Dependable Channels: Customizing QoS Attributes for Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Group communication specifications: a comprehensive study
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Moshe: A group membership service for WANs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Building Survivable Services Using Redundancy and Adaptation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
QoS customization in distributed object systems
Software—Practice & Experience - Special issue: Middleware
Application-based dynamic primary views in asynchronous distributed systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Reliable Distributed Network Management by Replication
Journal of Network and Systems Management
From Set Membership to Group Membership: A Separation of Concerns
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Enforcing provisioning and authorization policy in the Antigone system
Journal of Computer Security
Antigone: a flexible framework for secure group communication
SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
Deep middleware for the divergent Grid
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2005 International Conference on Middleware
A step towards a new generation of group communication systems
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2003 International Conference on Middleware
A scalable multicast security protocol in hierarchy structures
ACOS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
Role-Based declarative synchronization for reconfigurable systems
PADL'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
Deep middleware for the divergent grid
Middleware'05 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th international conference on Middleware
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A membership service is used to maintain information about which sites are functioning in a distributed system at any given time. Many such services have been defined, with each implementing a unique combination of properties that simplify the construction of higher levels of the system. Despite this wealth of possibilities, however, any given service typically realizes only one set of properties, which makes it difficult to tailor the service provided to the specific needs of the application. Here, a configurable membership service that addresses this problem is described. This service is based on decomposing membership into its constituent abstract properties and then implementing these properties as separate software modules called micro-protocols that can be configured together to produce a customized membership service. A prototype C++ implementation of the membership service for a simulated distributed environment is also described.