Paper Info
Title
G2CL: a generic group communication layer for clustered applications
Abstract
Generic group communication frameworks offer several benefits to developers of clustered applications, including better software modularity and greater flexibility in selecting a particular group communication system. However, current generic frameworks only support a very limited set of group communication primitives, which has hampered their adoption by many “real-world” clustered applications that require higher-level group communication services, such as state transfer, distributed data structures and replicated method invocation. This paper describes the design, implementation and initial evaluation of G2CL, a Generic Group Communication Layer that offers a set of commonly used high-level group communication services implemented on top of an existing generic framework. Compared to current group communication solutions, G2CL offers two main contributions: (i) its services can be configured to run over any group communication system supported by the underlying generic framework; and (ii) it implements the same service API used by JGroups, a popular group communication toolkit, which may reduce its learning curve and make the task of migrating to G2CL particularly attractive for JGroups users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-13645-0_13
DAIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
particular group communication system,high-level group communication service,current group communication solution,popular group communication toolkit,existing generic framework,group communication primitive,current generic framework,higher-level group communication service,generic group communication framework,generic group communication layer,group communication system,transformations,group communication,limit set,metamodeling,learning curve
Software modularity,Computer science,Communication in small groups,Real-time computing,Distributed data structures,Metamodeling,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6115
0302-9743
3-642-13644-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leandro Sales1242.40
Henrique Teofilo240.79
Nabor C. Mendonça320315.27