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Nils Richard Ekwall

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A Fault-Tolerant Token-Based Atomic Broadcast Algorithm

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

Many atomic broadcast algorithms have been published in the last 20 years. Token-based algorithms represent a large class of these algorithms. Interestingly, all the token-based atomic broadcast algorithms rely on a group membership service and none of the ...

2011

A Fault-Tolerant Token based Atomic Broadcast Algorithm

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

Many atomic broadcast algorithms have been published in the last twenty years. Token based algorithms represent a large class of these algorithms. Interestingly, all the token based atomic broadcast algorithms rely on a group membership service and none of ...

2010

Atomic broadcast

Nils Richard Ekwall

Within only a couple of generations, the so-called digital revolution has taken the world by storm: today, almost all human beings interact, directly or indirectly, at some point in their life, with a computer system. Computers are present on our desks, co ...

EPFL2007

Modeling and validating the performance of atomic broadcast algorithms in high-latency networks

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

The performance of consensus and atomic broadcast algorithms using failure detectors is often affected by a trade-off between the number of communication steps and the number of messages needed to reach a decision. In this paper, we model the performance o ...

Springer2007

On the Cost of Modularity in Atomic Broadcast

André Schiper, Sergio Mena, Nils Richard Ekwall, Olivier Rütti

Modularity is a desirable property of complex software systems, since it simplifies code reuse, verification, maintenance, etc. However, the use of loosely coupled modules introduces a performance overhead. This overhead is often considered negligible, but ...

2007

Comparing Atomic Broadcast Algorithms in High Latency Networks

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

Since the introduction of the concept of failure detectors, several consensus and atomic broadcast algorithms based on these detectors have been published. The performance of these algorithms is often affected by a trade-off between the number of communica ...

2006

Solving Atomic Broadcast with Indirect Consensus

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

In previous work, it has been shown how to solve atomic broadcast by reduction to consensus on messages. While this solution is theoretically correct, it has its limitations in practice, since executing consensus on large messages can quickly saturate the ...

2006

Solving Atomic Broadcast with Indirect Consensus

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

2006

Architectural Issues of JMS Compliant Group Communication

Nils Richard Ekwall, Arnas Kupsys

Group communication provides one-to-many communication primitives that simplify the development of highly available services. Despite advances in research and numerous prototypes, group communication stays confined to small niches. To facilitate the accept ...

2005

Replication: Understanding the Advantage of Atomic Broadcast over Quorum Systems

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

Quorum systems (introduced in the late seventies) and atomic broadcast (introduced later) are two techniques to manage replicated data. Despite of the fact that these two techniques are now well known, the advantage of atomic broadcast over quorum systems ...

2005