A broadcast type Hierarchical Group communication protocol Online publication date: Wed, 10-Feb-2010
by Kojiro Taguchi, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa
International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010
Abstract: A large number of peer processes are cooperating by exchanging messages in autonomic, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. In this paper, we discuss a Hierarchical Group (HG) protocol aimed at reducing communication and computation overheads for a large number of processes. A HG is composed of disjointed subgroups. Each subgroup has gateway processes which communicate with other subgroups. Even if messages are locally causally ordered in a subgroup, the messages may not be globally causally ordered in a group. We discuss how to globally causally order messages by using local synchronisation mechanisms of subgroups. In addition, we present an evaluation of the protocol.
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