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The design and implementation of an active replication scheme for distributing services in a cluster of workstations

journal contribution
posted on 2001-09-01, 00:00 authored by Li Wang, Wanlei Zhou, W Jia
Replication is the key to providing high availability, fault tolerance, and enhanced performance in a cluster of workstations (COWs). However, building such a system remains as a difficult and challenging task, mainly due to the difficulty of maintaining data consistency among replicas and the lack of easy and efficient tools supporting the development procedure. In this paper we propose an active replication scheme in which data consistency can be maintained. Based on the active replication scheme, we present an object-oriented design pattern and a constructing tool to simplify the design and implementation of service replications in COWs.

History

Journal

Journal of systems and software

Volume

58

Issue

3

Pagination

199 - 210

Publisher

Elsevier Science

Location

New York, N.Y.

ISSN

0164-1212

eISSN

1873-1228

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2001, Elsevier Science Inc.