Overview of the InterGroup protocols

Conference · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:780591

Berket, Karlo ^[1]; Agarwal, Deborah A. ^[1]; Melliar-Smith, P. Michael ^[2]; Moser, Louise E. ^[2]

---

1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

Existing reliable ordered group communication protocols have been developed for local-area networks and do not, in general, scale well to large numbers of nodes and wide-area networks. The InterGroup suite of protocols is a scalable group communication system that introduces a novel approach to handling group membership, and supports a receiver-oriented selection of service. The protocols are intended for a wide-area network, with a large number of nodes, that has highly variable delays and a high message loss rate, such as the Internet. The levels of the message delivery service range from unreliable unordered to reliable group timestamp ordered.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 780591
• Report Number(s): LBNL-47567; R&D Project: 527101; TRN: AH200120%%127
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2001 International Conference on Computational Science, , , San Francisco, CA (US), 05/28/2001--05/30/2001; Other Information: PBD: 1 Mar 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA TRANSMISSION
RELIABILITY