Modern multi-user communication systems, including popular instant messaging tools, social network platforms, and cooperative-work applications, offer flexible forms of communica...
Group communication protocols are used in fault-tolerant systems to maintain strong replica consistency. The FaultTolerant Multicast Protocol (FTMP) described here is a group comm...
Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Ruppert R. K...
In order to prevent misunderstandings within groups of interacting agents, it is necessary to ensure that the agents' beliefs regarding the overall state of the interaction a...
Hywel R. Dunn-Davies, Jim Cunningham, Shamimabi Pa...
This paper describes a group communication system called the timewheel group communication system that has been designed for a timed asynchronous distributed system model. The tim...
This paper proposes a family of replication protocols based on group communication in order to address some of the concerns expressed by database designers regarding existing repl...