Toward a solution to partitionable group membership for MANETs

Léon Lim (1, 2, 3) , Denis Conan (1, 2, 3)

1 TSP - INF - Département Informatique
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Group membership is a basic building block for group communication systems. It has been shown that the specifications of group membership in partitionable systems have not yet reached the level of maturity of primary-partition specifications. In operational MANETs, the problem becomes even more complex since they are very dynamic networks and can experience a wide amount of churn. Another problem close to group membership is consensus which can be used to solve group membership in primary-partition systems. We propose to discuss about the interest of designing a solution to group membership in partitionable systems built over MANETs by adapting Paxos.

Mots clés: MANETs; Dynamic partitionable systems; Partitionable group membership; Abortable consensus

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Léon Lim, Denis Conan. Toward a solution to partitionable group membership for MANETs. OPODIS '11 : 15th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems, Dec 2011, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-00816818⟩