A Fault-Tolerant Algorithm For Distributed Resource Allocation

Resource allocation is a usual problem that must be faced during a distributed system design. Despite the large number of algorithms proposed in literature to solve this problem, most papers lack of detailed descriptions about how to turn these algorithms into real-world reliable protocols. This art...

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Autores: Pessolani, Pablo Andrés, Jara, Oscar, Gonnet, Silvio M., Cortés, Toni, Tinetti, Fernando Gustavo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/81185
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/81185
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Informáticas
Distributed Systems
Distributed Resource Allocation
Fault tolerance
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Sumario:Resource allocation is a usual problem that must be faced during a distributed system design. Despite the large number of algorithms proposed in literature to solve this problem, most papers lack of detailed descriptions about how to turn these algorithms into real-world reliable protocols. This article presents a fault-tolerant algorithm for distributed resource allocation named SLOTS which is implemented as an executable protocol. It allocates resources among members in a fairly manner using simple heuristics and employing a donation approach. SLOTS supports the dynamic behavior of clusters and provides high availability services. It bases its fault-tolerance properties and membership changes in atomic sets of operations (like transactions) using services provided by an underlying Group Communication System.