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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTA.2005.12A.6.507

Partially Decentralized Passive Replication Algorithm  

Ahn, Jin-Ho (경기대하교 정보과학부 전자계산학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartA / v.12A, no.6, 2005 , pp. 507-514 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a partially decentralized passive replication algorithm for deterministic servers in message-passing distributed systems. The algorithm allows any backup server, not necessarily the primary server, to take responsibility for processing its received client request and coordinating with the other replica servers after obtaining the delivery sequence number of the request from the primary. Thanks to thus desirable feature, the algorithm with conventional load balancing techniques can efficiently avoid extreme load conditions on the primary. Therefore, it can provide better scalability of deterministic and replicated sewer systems than traditional passive replication algorithms. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can reduce $16.5\%{\~}52.3\%$ of the average response time of a client request compared with the traditional ones.
Keywords
Message-passing Distributed System; Fault-tolerance; passive Replication; Deterministic Servers; Scalability;
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