Artikel in Tagungsband INPROC-2007-55

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Herrmann, Klaus: Group Anti-Entropy - Achieving Eventual Consistency in Mobile Service Environments.
In: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07).
Universität Stuttgart, Fakultät Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik.
englisch.
IEEE Computer Society Press, Januar 2007.
Artikel in Tagungsband (Konferenz-Beitrag).
CR-Klassif.C.2.4 (Distributed Systems)
H.2 (Database Management)
Keywordsmobility, ambient services, data consistency, optimistic replication
Kurzfassung

Data consistency protocols are vital ingredients of mobile data management systems. Notable research efforts have been spent to find adequate consistency models for allowing mobile and nomadic users to share mutable data. Recently, mobile Ambient Service infrastructures that pose somewhat different requirements have entered the focus of attention. Such services are not as loosely coupled as the afore-mentioned systems, but they still need flexible consistency protocols that may adapt to the current dynamics in the system. We propose an extension to the well-known anti-entropy protocol that makes use of the nature of Ambient Service environments to allow for a flexible consistency management among arbitrary groups of mobile service replicas. We will show that our protocol can exploit the concept of group updates to increase its efficiency in terms of bandwidth usage. Furthermore, we prove that it avoids costly state transfers by means of a simple rule that limits the divergence within the overall set of replicas. Finally, we introduce two simple tunable parameters, and we present experimental results that show how they may be used to shape the characteristics of the protocol.

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Abteilung(en)Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Verteilte Systeme
Eingabedatum25. Oktober 2007
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