Efficient heartbeats and repair of softstate in decentralized object location and routing systems
Hakim Weatherspoon, John D. Kubiatowicz · 2002
Redundancy alone is not sufficient to provide long-term guarantees in distributed systems. Instead, it must be cou-pled with mechanisms for automatic maintenance. In this paper, we show how Decentralized Object Location and Routing networks (DOLRs) with locality provide a frame-work for efficient heartbeats and continuous system repair. 1.