Lightweight probabilistic broadcast

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by P. Th. Eugster , R. Guerraoui , S. B. Handurukande , A.-M. Kermarrec , P. Kouznetsov

Venue:	ACM Transaction on Computer Systems
Citations:	302 - 35 self

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@ARTICLE{Eugster03lightweightprobabilistic,
    author = {P. Th. Eugster and R. Guerraoui and S. B. Handurukande and A.-M. Kermarrec and P. Kouznetsov},
    title = {Lightweight probabilistic broadcast},
    journal = {ACM Transaction on Computer Systems},
    year = {2003},
    volume = {21}
}

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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.

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lightweight probabilistic broadcast membership management scalability inherent throughput scalability membership management peer-to-peer application large scale concrete measurement traditional strong reliability guarantee gossip-based broadcast protocol random subset fixed size little work broadcast algorithm good scalability property analytical result individual view much research effort traditional gossip-based algorithm delivery latency novel gossip-based broadcast algorithm

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