Experiences with Group Communication Middleware

Group communication is a widely studied paradigm for building fault-tolerant distributed systems. The Armada project at the University of Michigan is a collaborative effort with the Honeywell Technology Center to study how real-world applications use group communication. In this paper, we describe the results of our experience implementing a fault-tolerant distributed radar tracking system, and discuss how we were able to simplify our design and implementation by utilizing additionalservices built on top of the group communication model.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: DSN
• Authors: Scott Johnson, Farnam Jahanian, Sunondo Ghosh, Brian Van Voorst, Nicholas Weininger
• Keywords: Computer Networks, DSN 2000, Fault-tolerant Distributed Radar, Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems, Group Communication