13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'02)
Protocol for Large-Scale Group
Aix-en-Provence, France
September 02-September 06
ISBN: 0-7695-1668-8
We discuss a novel type of group communication protocol for a large number of processes. Group communication among a large number of processes implies large computation and communication overheads for manipulating and transmitting messages since computation and communication overheads are O(n2) for number n of processes. In this paper, we discuss a hierarchical group which is composed of subgroups of processes.