A practical approach to the interGroup protocols
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); LBNL Library
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, 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 an unusual 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 timestamp ordered. We also present a secure group layer that builds on InterGroup to provide SSL-like security for groups.
- Research Organization:
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
- 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:
- 836659
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--49126
- Journal Information:
- Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal Name: Future Generation Computer Systems Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 18
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Overview of the InterGroup protocols
The intergroup protocols: Scalable group communication for the internet