Implementation and performance testing of a gossip-based communication system
Kim Potter Kihlstrom, Joel L. Stewart, N. Tobias Lounsbury, Adrian J. Rogers, Michael C. Magnuson · 2007
Computer systems today are increasingly complex, em-ploying vast numbers of nodes connected over large ge-ographic areas. As these types of systems become more pervasive and integral to a variety of services, there is a heightened need for scalability and reliability in the under-lying communication system. We present an implementation of a gossip-based, wide-area group communication system that is resilient to process and communication failures and is scalable to a very large number of nodes. We provide implementation details and describe our performance tests. The results are presented and analyzed.