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- Subject: UNIZH TR: Replication Heuristics and Polling Algorithms
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 16:46:44 GMT
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- ifi-tr-92.06 (available electronically as ifi-92.06.ps.Z)
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- Abstract
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- This paper deals with the dynamic regulation of the
- level of replication in distributed systems, and leads to the introduction
- of replication-heuristics therefore.
- The question of which replica of an object should be referenced
- by operations when several copies are
- provided at different remote sites in the net is also addressed.
- Polling-algorithms performing
- this choice will also be presented. Replication-heuristics and
- polling-algorithms are an important research field in distributed,
- replicating systems but not adequately treated yet. The purpose of
- this work is to present possible solutions for these two problems
- and to suggest how the
- area should further be studied. As an important application of
- replication-heuristics and polling-algorithms, a replicating file
- transfer protocol (RFTP) is proposed.
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