Selected sections of this report were presented at the Ersads 2001, European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, 14-18 May 2001, Bertinoro (Forlì), Italy.
This paper reports a practical experience of implementing a group communication service using a protocol composition framework. Specifically, the paper describes the implementation of a Light-Weight Groups (LWG) service on the Ensemble system. This is an interesting case-study because the LWG service is very demanding in terms of protocol composition since its implementation requires the use of forked shaped protocol stacks that are reconfigured at run-time. The insights that we have gained with the exercise are being used in the development of a new composition framework called Appia.
@inproceedings{Pinto:ersads01,
author = "Pinto, A. and Miranda, H. and Rodrigues, L.",
address = " Bertinoro (Forli),Italy",
booktitle = "Fourth European Research Seminar on Advances in
Distributed Systems (ERSADS'01)",
month = may,
title = "Light-Weight Groups: an implementation in Ensemble",
year = "2001",
}