Efficient Replicated Remote File Comparison

  • Authors:
  • John J. Metzner

  • Affiliations:
  • Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

The author improves on some previous work involving data transfer to find the location of disagreements between two or more large remote data files. Some procedures that permit a significant reduction in the number of back-and-forth interchanges are described, one of which significantly reduces the total amount of data transfer required. The older scheme could locate a disagreeing page with an extremely high degree of confidence more than one interchange. The new procedures require at most one back-and-forth interchange for each disagreeing page, often considerably less.