Group Communication in Amoeba and its Applications

M.F. Kaashoek, A.S. Tanenbaum, C. Verstoep

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Abstract

Unlike many other operating systems, Amoeba is a distributed operating system that provides group communication (i.e. one-to-many communication). The authors discuss design issues for group communication, Amoeba's group system calls, and the protocols to implement group communication. To demonstrate that group communication is a useful abstraction, they describe a design and implementation of a fault-tolerant directory service. They discuss two versions of the directory service: one with non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) and one without NVRAM. They give performance figures for both implementations.
Original languageEnglish
Article number006
Pages (from-to)48-58
Number of pages11
JournalDistributed Systems Engineering
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1993

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