Evaluating the Performance of Flood-d: A Tool for Efficiently Replicating Internet Information Services (1997)
| Venue: | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
| Citations: | 2 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Obraczka97evaluatingthe,
author = {Katia Obraczka and Peter Danzig},
title = {Evaluating the Performance of Flood-d: A Tool for Efficiently Replicating Internet Information Services},
journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},
year = {1997},
volume = {16}
}
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Abstract
Because of their increasing popularity, Internet information services such as the Web, Internet FTP archives, and Network News, replicate their servers to improve availability, response time, and fault tolerance. Traditional replication algorithms do not address the scale and administrative decentralization of today's internetworks. They manage a single group of replicas and rely on system administrators to hand configure the topologies over which updates travel. While this is appropriate for applications with a small number of replicas that operate within single administrative boundaries, it does not scale in wide-area, highly replicated services whose replicas spread throughout the Internet's thousands of autonomously administered domains. We have proposed and implemented a scalable and efficient tool to replicate widearea, autonomously managed services. We target replication degrees of thousands of weakly consistent replicas. The main goal of our replication tool is to make traditio...
