Handling Emergent Nondeterminism in Replicated Services
Architecting Dependable Systems V
Living with nondeterminism in replicated middleware applications
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2006 International Conference on Middleware
Practical and low-overhead masking of failures of TCP-based servers
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Living with nondeterminism in replicated middleware applications
Middleware'06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
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Providing transparent replication of servers has been a major goal in the fault tolerance community. Transparent replication is particularly challenging for highly non-deterministic applications, such as the ones that use multi-threading. For such applications, keeping replicas in a consistent state becomes non-trivial. One way to deal with the non-determinism is to use a leader/follower approach.In this paper we describe the design and performance of a TCP tapping mechanism we implemented. This mechanism was designed to improve the efficiency of leader/follower replication. We argue that TCP tapping can address a major efficiency bottleneck of leader/follower replication.