Optimistic atomic broadcast: a pragmatic viewpoint

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Pedone;André Schiper

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Software Technology Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA;Communication Systems Department, EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Special issue: Distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents the Optimistic Atomic Broadcast algorithm (OPT-ABcast) which exploits the spontaneous total-order property experienced in local-area networks in order to allow fast delivery of messages. The OPT-ABcast algorithm is based on a sequence of stages, and messages can be delivered during a stage or at the end of a stage. During a stage, processes deliver messages fast. Whenever the spontaneous total-order property does not hold, processes terminate the current stage and start a new one by solving a Consensus problem which may lead to the delivery of some messages. We evaluate the efficiency of the OPT-ABcast algorithm using the notion of delivery latency.