A Low-Level Processor Group Membership Protocol for LANS
Luís Rodrigues, Paulo Veríssimo and José Rufino
From the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Distributed
Computing System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 25-28, 1993.
Abstract
This paper presents a processor group membership protocol designed to
run on top of a local area network. The protocol maintains information
about a selected group of stations that explicitly join the protocol
by keeping a replica of a global membership table at every member.
Additionally, the protocol guarantees that a given station always
occupies the same entry in the table. As a result, table indexes do
uniquely and universally identify a station and can thus be used as
short identifiers. The interest of a processor group membership is
twofold: it is a powerful auxiliary for process group membership
management and it provides support for efficient message addressing.
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