An efficient distributed single-phase protocol for total and causal ordering of group operations
Chengzheng Sun, P. Maheshwari · 2002
The total and causal ordering of group operations in distributed systems is at the core of solutions to many problems in distributed computing. Existing approaches ore based on either a centralized coordinator to assign a sequence number for each operation or on a distributed two-phase protocol to determine the total ordering number. This paper proposes an efficient distributed single-phase protocol which determines the total ordering of group operations at the moment when operations are generated, without the need for a dedicated phase of determining the total ordering.