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Replication Techniques for Availability

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Replication

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The chapter studies how to provide clients with access to a replicated object that is logically indistinguishable from accessing a single yet highly available object. We study this problem under two different models. In the first, we assume that failures can be detected accurately. In the second we drop this assumption, making the model more realistic but also significantly more challenging. Under the first model, we present the primary-backup and chain replication techniques. Under the second model, we present techniques based on voting. We conclude with a discussion on reconfiguration.

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  1. Cornell University, USA

    Robbert van Renesse

  2. EPFL, Switzerland

    Rachid Guerraoui

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  1. CNRS, École Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Bernadette Charron-Bost

  2. Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Via Giuseppe Buffi 6, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fernando Pedone

  3. School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 14, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    André Schiper

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van Renesse, R., Guerraoui, R. (2010). Replication Techniques for Availability. In: Charron-Bost, B., Pedone, F., Schiper, A. (eds) Replication. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11294-2_2

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