THE WHEEL QUORUM PROTOCOL: AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR READING REPLICATED DATA

Parul Pandey and Maheshwari Tripathi

Keywords

Quorum protocols, replication, performance evaluation, distributeddatabases

Abstract

Data is replicated in distributed systems to improve availability and performance. To keep logical data consistent, there must exist a control protocol responsible for synchronizing the access. In this paper, we present a novel and eļ¬ƒcient distributed algorithm for managing replicated data. We impose a logical wheel structure on the set of copies of an object. The protocol ensures minimum read quorum size of one, by reading one copy of an object while guaranteeing fault-tolerance of write operations. Even in failure, read quorum remains one. Wheel structure has a wider application area as it can be imposed in a network with any number of nodes. It gives high read availability.

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