MojaveComm : a view-oriented group communication protocol with support for virtual synchrony

Citation

Noblet, David Alexander (2009) MojaveComm : a view-oriented group communication protocol with support for virtual synchrony. Master's thesis, California Institute of Technology. http://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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