Title
Concurrency Issues in Reliable Group Communication Systems
Overview
The goal of project is to give an overview of reliable group
communication model and address encountered concurrency issues.
Paper
Andre Schiper, Kenneth Birman and Pat Stephenson.
Lightweight Causal and Atomic Group Multicast.
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9(3):272-314, August 1991.
Additional reading material
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Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman and Silvano Maffeis.
Horus, a Flexible Group Communication System.
Communications of the ACM, 39(4):76-83, April 1996.
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A Simple Deadlock Resolution Scheme for Synchronous Reliable Group RPC
(draft)
http://www.javagroups.com/Papers/Middleware.ps.gz
Implementation details
Implementing de/multiplexing protocol layer for javagroups reliable
group communication toolkit enabling multiple concurrent lightweight
client connection to a single instance of javagroups protocol stack.