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Group Communication Service. by Abhijeet Dharmapurikar Jesse Greenwald Sapna Gumidyala Shashidhar Rampally Varsha Mahadevan. Introduction. What is a Group Communication Service? Why do we need a Group Communication Service? Sample Applications Data Replication Process Groups.
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Group Communication Service by Abhijeet Dharmapurikar Jesse Greenwald Sapna Gumidyala Shashidhar Rampally Varsha Mahadevan
Introduction • What is a Group Communication Service? • Why do we need a Group Communication Service? • Sample Applications • Data Replication • Process Groups
Introduction (contd) • Existing Group Communication Services • Java Groups • Spread • Configurable protocol stack used by Java Groups • Scope for utilization of application specific information
Our Group Communication Service • Using application specific information • Message Types • Message Patterns • Finding best-fit protocol stack for the above application • Optimization of number of messages
Illustrative Examples • Tele-teaching Application • Card Game Application
Tele-Teaching Application <protocol> <roles> <role name="Student" min="1" max="n"/> <role name="Teacher" min="1" max="1"/> </roles> <message-types> <message-type name="Question"/> <message-type name="Answer"/> <message-type name="Formula"/> <message-type name="Doubt"/> <message-type name="TeacherAnswer"/> </message-types> . . . </protocol>
Tele-Teaching Application (contd) <message-patterns> <pattern> <query type="Question" role="Teacher" receiver="Student" min="1" max="1"/> <response type="Answer" role="Student” receiver="Teacher" min="0" max="#Student" timeout="60s"/> </pattern> <pattern> <query type="Formula” min="1" max="1"/> <response type="Doubt" min="0" max="#Student" timeout="120s"/> </pattern> </message-patterns>
Card Game Application <protocol> <roles> <role name="Player1" min="1" max="1"/> <role name="Player2" min="1" max="1"/> <role name="Player3" min="1" max="1"/> <role name="Player4" min="1" max="1"/> </roles> <message-types> <message-type name="Play"/> </message-types> . . . </protocol>
Card Game Application (contd) <message-patterns> <pattern> <message type="Play" role="Player1" min="1" max="1” receiver="Player1,Player2,Player3,Player4"/> <message type="Play" role="Player2" min="1" max="1” receiver="Player1,Player2,Player3,Player4"/> <message type="Play" role="Player3" min="1" max="1” receiver="Player1,Player2,Player3,Player4"/> <message type="Play" role="Player4" min="1" max="1” receiver="Player1,Player2,Player3,Player4"/> </pattern> </message-patterns>
Related Concepts • Proactive Messages • Reactive Messages
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
Group Manager Clients
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
CORBA • Common Object Request Broker Arch. • Object Management Group (OMG) • Defines IDL Language • Defines the API for ORB
Object Services • Name Service • Event Service • Notification Service • Time Service • Transaction Service • Persistent State Service
Event Service Supplier Supplier Supplier Event Channel Consumer Consumer
Push Communication Model Push Supplier Push Consumer Initiative I wish to decide when the data is to be sent Just call my method whenever you have data for me DATA
Pull Communication Model Pull Supplier Pull Supplier Initiative I wish to decide when to go for data Just call my method whenever you want data DATA
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
Filtering Protocol • Filters based on • Message Type • Destination • Operates in two modes • JOIN_MODE • ONLINE_MODE
Filtering Protocol cond.. JOIN_MODE: Allows only JOIN_GROUP messages Allows only UpdatedView messages ONLINE_MODE: Allows all the messages Allows all messages except the messages to which its not a destination.
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
struct Message { long messageId; long source; long destination; string message; char messageType; boolean isProactive; }; struct SequenceMessage { long messageId; long source; long destination; long sequenceId; }; Message Format
Ordering Protocol • Sequencer based algorithm • Send broadcast message to all the members in the group and the sequencer • Sequencer assigns ids to these broadcast messages in a strictly increasing order • Member delivers the broadcast messages in the increasing order of sequencer ids
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
Correlation Protocol • Buffered ordering of reactive messages with respect to proactive messages • Tele-Teaching Example • Question (proactive message) • Answer (reactive message)
Correlator • Handles relationship between messages • Could be imagined as a smart tree-structured buffer • Patterns X –Y5 - Z2
z Y z z Y z z Y X z z Y z z Y z
System Design Application Protocol Group Membership Protocol Correlation Protocol Ordering Protocol Filtering Protocol Event Service
Group Membership Roles • Roles for the membership protocol • Groups Administrator • Group Manager • Member • Related Concept • View
struct JoinGroup { long member; }; struct LeaveGroup { long member; }; struct UpdateView { long messageId; long source; viewSeq view; }; Membership Message Formats
Group Membership Protocol NM M1 M2 M3 GManager GM GM GM GM JoinGroup UpdateView UpdateView UpdateView Event Channel
Configurable Protocol Stack (1) DownQueue UpHandler DownHandler Protocol 1 UpQueue DownQueue UpHandler DownHandler Protocol 2 UpQueue
Optimizations • Save round trip to sequencer for reactive messages • Tele-Teaching example • Card Game example • Selective build of required layers in the protocol stack
Group Communication Issues • One channel per group concept • Atomicity of broadcast messages • Ordering of membership messages with respect to broadcast messages • Implicit notion of proactive membership messages • Support for uni-cast communication
Conclusion • Possible extensions • Cross Group Communication • Fault-Tolerance issues • Group State Management
References • Lecture Notes • http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~singh/CIS825/F02/cis825.html • Java Groups • http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/JavaGroupsNew/ • Event Service Specification • http://cgi.omg.org/docs/formal/01-03-01.pdf