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Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'06)
Communication-Efficient Probabilistic Quorum Systems for Sensor Networks
Pisa, Italy
March 13-March 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2520-2
Gregory Chockler, IBM Research
Seth Gilbert, MIT CSAIL
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Communication-efficiency is of key importance when constructing robust services in limited bandwidth environments, such as sensor networks. We focus on communication-efficiency in the context of quorum systems, which are useful primitives for building reliable distributed systems. To this end, we exhibit a new probabilistic quorum construction in which every node transmits at most O(log^2 n) bits per quorum access, where n is the number of nodes in the system. Our implementation, in addition to being communication efficient, is also robust in the face of communication failures. In particular, it guarantees consistency (with high probability) in the face of network partitions. To the best of our knowledge, no existing probabilistic quorum systems achieve polylogarithmic communication complexity and are resilient to network partitions.
Citation:
Gregory Chockler, Seth Gilbert, Boaz Patt-Shamir, "Communication-Efficient Probabilistic Quorum Systems for Sensor Networks," percomw, pp.111-117, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'06), 2006
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