Summary: A Low Latency, Loss Tolerant Architecture and Protocol for Wide Area Group
Communication 
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Jonathan Stanton y
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
fyairamir, claudiu, jonathang@cs.jhu.edu
Abstract
Group communication systems are proven tools upon
which to build fault­tolerant systems. As the demands for
fault­tolerance increase and more applications require reli­
able distributed computing over wide area networks, wide
area group communication systems are becoming very use­
ful. However, building a wide area group communication
system is a challenge. This paper presents the design of
the transport protocols of the Spread wide area group com­
munication system. We focus on two aspects of the system.
First, the value of using overlay networks for application
level group communication services. Second, the require­

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences