MojaveComm: a View-Oriented Group Communication Protocol with Support for Virtual Synchrony

Citation

Noblet, David Alexander (2008) MojaveComm: a View-Oriented Group Communication Protocol with Support for Virtual Synchrony. Master's thesis, California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/M69B-WB70. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-06042008-113805

Abstract

In this thesis, we explore the feasibility of implementing a general communication protocol that addresses common classes of problems that one encounters in the development of distributed applications, such as: multipoint-to-multipoint communication, message (re)ordering, mutual exclusion, and consensus. The paper details both the design and implementation of MojaveComm, a view-oriented total-order group communication protocol suitable for deployment on wide-area networks. Moreover, we provide a high-level overview of MojaveFS, a sequentially consistent distributed filesystem, and show how we can use the message-ordering guarantees of MojaveComm as the basis for the implementation of its sequential consistency guarantees.

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