Census: Location-Aware Membership Management for Large-Scale Distributed Systems

We present Census, a platform for building large-scale distributed applications. Census provides a membership service and a multicast mechanism. The membership service provides every node with a consistent view of the system membership, which may be global or partitioned into location-based regions....

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Main Authors: Cowling, James Alexander, Ports, Dan R. K., Liskov, Barbara H., Popa, Raluca Ada, Gaikwad, Abhijeet
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: USENIX Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61401
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-1866