Science of Computer Programming
Reliable communication in the presence of failures
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Byzantine Generals Problem
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
The State Machine Approach: A Tutorial
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Issues of fault tolerance in concurrent computations (databases, reliability, transactions, agreement protocols, distributed computing)
Understanding fault-tolerant distributed systems
Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Lightweight causal and atomic group multicast
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Extending the user interface to the multiuser environment
ACM SIGOIS Bulletin
A system for constructing configurable high-level protocols
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Timed Asynchronous Distributed System Model
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Replica Determinism and Flexible Scheduling in Hard Real-Time Dependable Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A formal method to prove ordering properties of multicast systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
EW 4 Proceedings of the 4th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop
Design of fault tolerant distributed systems: the fail-controlled approach
EW 4 Proceedings of the 4th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop
Object-Oriented Design of QoS Multicast Communications
Cluster Computing
RMP: Fault-Tolerant Group Communication
IEEE Micro
A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Communiction Service in Java
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Testing of fault-tolerant and real-time distributed systems via protocol fault injection
FTCS '96 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
Object-Based Message Ordering in Group Communication
WORDS '97 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - (WORDS '97)
Total order broadcast and multicast algorithms: Taxonomy and survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Research: Design and analysis of an efficient and reliable atomic multicast protocol
Computer Communications
Research: Significantly ordered delivery of messages in group communication
Computer Communications
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This paper deals with the problem of reliable group communication for distributed applications, in the context of the Reliable Broadcast class of protocols. An atomic multicast protocol for token passing Lans is presented. The actual implementation is on an 8802/4 Token-bus, although it is applicable to 8802/5 Token-rings and the FDDI Fibre-Optic network.The simplicity and efficiency of reliable broadcast protocols may be considerably improved, if the system fault model is restricted or convenient architectures are used. Fail-controlled communication components are used here to build an efficient reliable multicast protocol on top of the exposed MAC interface of a VLSI Lan controller. The architecture is built on standard Lans, in view of taking advantage of the availability of communications hardware and the possibility of coexistence with standard stations, in the same network.The service offered allows transparent multicasting inside logical groups, which are dynamically created and updated. The primitive is highly parallel and provides atomic agreement and consistent delivery order, respecting logical precedence. These features are an important contribution for the implementation of high performance distributed computing systems.