Providing transparent replication of servers has been a major goal in the fault tolerance community. Transparent replication is particularly challenging for highly non-deterministic applications, such as the ones that use multi-threading. For such applications, keeping replicas in a consistent state becomes non-trivial. One way to deal with the non-determinism is to use a leader/follower approach.In this paper we describe the design and performance of a TCP tapping mechanism we implemented. This mechanism was designed to improve the efficiency of leader/follower replication. We argue that TCP tapping can address a major efficiency bottleneck of leader/follower replication.
Index Terms:
fault-tolerance, distributed systems, leader/follower replication, TCP tapping.
Citation:
Maxim Orgiyan, Christof Fetzer, "Tapping TCP Streams," nca, pp.0278, IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'01), 2001