Some Practical Issues in the Design and Implementation of Group Communication Services
Shivakant Mishra · 2000
The main objective of the proposed research was to investigate four important practical issues in the understanding, design, and implementation of group communication services. These issues were (1) Performance: maintain good overall performance of group communication services under several different operating conditions, (2) Semantics: design a small set of powerful group communication semantics to ensure ease of implementation and good performance of the applications built using these services, (3) Flow control: design and evaluate efficient general purpose flow-control techniques that handle temporary buffers in group communication services and Real-time responsiveness: investigate the feasibility of designing and implementing real-time responsive group communication services implemented in distributed systems that are not completely synchronous.