Implementation of a Flexible Membership Protocol on a Real-Time Ethernet Prototype

This paper describes the implementation of a processorgroup membership protocol in an experimental real-time network. The protocol is appropriate for fault-tolerant distributed systems using TDMA for scheduling messages. It allows nodes to maintain a consensus on the operational state of all nodes, in the presence of node failures and restarts, as well as network failures. The protocol is based on the principle that, in a system of n nodes, each node must acknowledge the messages from k other nodes in the membership group, where k can assume values between

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: PRDC
• Authors: Raul Barbosa, António Ferreira, Johan Karlsson
• Keywords: Dependable Computing, Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems, Node Failures, PRDC 2007, Processorgroup Membership Protocol