Programming language support for replication in fault-tolerant distributed systems

Authors:
Eric C. Cooper
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Venue:
EW 4 Proceedings of the 4th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop
Year:
1990

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Abstract

Replication is the primary means of achieving high availability in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Multicast or group communication is a useful tool for expressing replicated algorithms and constructing highly available systems. But programming language support for replication and group communication is uncommon.This position paper discusses three language constructs---functional mapping, iterators, and streams---that can be used for replicated communication at the programming language level. These mechanisms are evaluated using a set of essential and desirable properties.