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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Mark Little, Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava
This paper describes the design of an object replication scheme for the Arjuna distributed system. The design supports K-resiliency, where, in the absence of network partitions, K out of a total of K+1 replica failures can be tolerated before an object becomes unavailable. The scheme chosen employs active replication where each and every functioning replica of an object carries out processing. Computations are structured as atomic actions (atomic transactions). The paper presents the details of how object groups are created and terminated, how a group can be invoked and object replicas inserted and removed in a consistent manner in the presence of node failures.
Author(s): Little MC, Shrivastava SK
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1991
Pages: 13
Print publication date: 01/01/1991
Source Publication Date: 1991
Report Number: 319
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/319.pdf