Papers Abstracts and references:

An Asynchronous Membership Protocol that Tolerates Partitions
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Authors: D. Dolev, D. Malki and R. Strong

A revised membership definition and protocol.

Research Report RJ 9727 (84359), IBM Research Division,
IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1994.

or

Technical Report TR94-6, Institute of Computer Science, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 1994.

Size - 105 KB
The Transis Approach to High Availability Cluster Communication
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Authors: D. Malki, Y. Amir, D. Dolev and S. Kramer

Technical Report CS94-14, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, October 1994.

Provides a summary of three years of experience with the
Transis approach to high-availability cluster communication. 

Size -  82 KB
Uniform Actions in Asynchronous Distributed Systems
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Authors: D. Malki, K. Birman, A. Ricciardi and A. Schiper

A formal study of coordinated actions in distributed systems.

Size - 81 KB

A previous version of this paper, appearing in
the 13th annual ACM symposium on the Principles of
Distributed Computing (PODC), Los Angeles, August 1994, pp. 274-284,
can be found in:

Uniform Actions in Asynchronous Distributed Systems (PODC)
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Size - 64 KB
Extended Virtual Synchrony
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Authors: L. Moser, Y. Amir, P. Melliar-Smith and D. Agarwal

A formal model for group communication that tolerates message 
omissions, process crashes and recoveries, and network partitions 
and remerges.

14th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (DCS), 
June 1994, pp. 56-65.

Size - 60 KB

A more detailed version can be found in: 

Extended Virtual Synchrony (detailed)
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Authors: L. E. Moser, Y. Amir, P. M. Melliar-Smith and D. A. Agarwal Definition of group communication transport layer services in environments that can have partitions. Technical Report ECE#93-22, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993. Size - 59 KB
Warm Backup using Snooping
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Authors: D. Dolev, D. Malki and Y. Yarom

A novel file replication protocol based on network snooping.

The First International Workshop on
Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE), 
Prague, Czech Republic, June 1994, pp. 60-65.

Size - 42 KB
Robust and Efficient Replication using Group Communication
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Authors: Y. Amir, D. Dolev, P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser.

Technical Report CS94-20, Institute of Computer Science, 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 1994.

Size -  62 KB
PCODE: An Efficient and Reliable Collective Communication Protocol for Unreliable Broadcast Domains
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Authors: J. Bruck, D. Dolev, C.T. Ho, R. Orni, R. Strong: 

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On Distributed Algorithms in a Broadcast Domain
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Authors: D. Dolev and D. Malki

20th Intl. Conference on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP),
Lund Sweden, July 1993, pp. 371-387.

Size - 59 KB
A Highly Available Application in the Transis Environment
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Authors: O. Amir, Y. Amir and D. Dolev

A replication application in the Transis environment. 
A new replication protocol is shortly described.

The Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance
Workshop, Le Mont Saint-Michel, France, June 1993, LNCS 774.

* If you are interested in this kind of replication protocols,
  I will be more than glad to discuss with you.
  Please E-mail to yairamir@cs.huji.ac.il

Size - 49 KB
Fast Message ordering and membership using a logical token-passing ring
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Authors: Y. Amir, L. Moser, P. Melliar-Smith, D. Agarwal, P. Ciarfella

An alternative total-ordering and flow-control algorithm
used by Transis. The work was done at the ECE department, 
University of California, Santa Barbara.

13th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (DCS), 
May 1993, pp. 551-560.

Size - 56 KB

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