Abstract
This paper presents a processor group membership protocol designed to run on top of a local area network. The protocol maintains information about a selected group of stations that explicitly join the protocol by keeping a replica of a global membership table at every member. Additionally, the protocol guarantees that a given station always occupies the same entry in the table. As a result, table indexes do uniquely and universally identify a station and can thus be used as short identifiers. The interest of a processor group membership is twofold: it is a powerful auxiliary for process group membership management and it provides support for efficient message addressing.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Publ by IEEEPiscataway, NJ, United States |
| Pages | 541-550 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0818637706 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |