Title: An autonomic group communication protocol for distributed applications

Authors: Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa

Addresses: Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, 4-2-16, Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141 8602, Japan. ' Department of Computers and Systems Engineering, Tokyo Denki University at Ishizaka, Hatoyama-cyo, Hiki-gun, Saitama, 350 0394, Japan

Abstract: We discuss a group protocol which supports applications with group communication service when QoS supported by networks or required by applications is changed. An autonomic group protocol is realised by cooperation of multiple autonomous agents. Each agent autonomously takes a class of each protocol function so as to support only and all QoS required. A group is composed of views for scalability. Each view is a subset of the agents where the agents autonomously take protocol classes consistent with each other. We make clear what combination of classes can be autonomously taken by agents in a view.

Keywords: autonomic group protocols; peer-to-peer systems; P2P; autonomic group agents; group communication protocols; quality of service; QoS; autonomic computing; autonomous agents; high performance computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2005.009417

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2005 Vol.3 No.5/6, pp.285 - 295

Published online: 31 Mar 2006 *

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