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Lightweight probabilistic broadcast

  • P. Th Eugster
  • , R. Guerraoui
  • , S. B. Handurukande
  • , A. M. Kermarrec
  • , P. Kouznetsov
  • ENAC-IIC-GEL
  • Microsoft Research Cambridge

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Abstract

The growing interest in peer-to-peer applications has underlined the importance of scalability in modern distributed systems. Not surprisingly much research effort has been invested in gossip-based broadcast protocols. These trade the traditional strong reliability guarantees against very good "scalability" properties. Scalability is in that context usually expressed in terms of throughput and delivery latency, but there is only little work on how to reduce the overhead of membership management at large scale. This paper presents Lightweight Probabilistic Broadcast (lpbcast), a novel gossip-based broadcast algorithm which preserves the inherent throughput scalability of traditional gossip-based algorithms and adds a notion of membership management scalability: every process only knows a random subset of fixed size of the processes in the system. We formally analyze our broadcast algorithm in terms of scalability with respect to the size of individual views, and compare the analytical results both with simulations and concrete measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2001
EditorsD.C. Young
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages443-452
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)0769511015, 9780769511016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2001 - Goteborg, Sweden
Duration: 1 Jul 20014 Jul 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Conference

Conference2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2001
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGoteborg
Period1/07/014/07/01

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