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Design and Performance of Horus:
A Lightweight Group Communications System
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Design and Performance of Horus:
A Lightweight Group Communications System
Robbert van Renesse, Takako M. Hickey, and Kenneth P. Birman
Dept. of Computer Science
Cornell University
Abstract:
The Horus project seeks to develop a communication system addressing
the requirements of a wide variety of distributed applications.
Horus implements the group communications model providing
(among others)
unreliable or reliable FIFO, causal, or total group multicasts.
It is extensively layered and highly reconfigurable allowing
applications to only pay for services they use.
This architecture enables groups with different
communication needs to coexist in a single system.
The approach permits experimentation with new communication
properties and incremental extension of the system, and enables
us to support a variety of application-oriented interfaces.
Our initial experiments show good performance.
Robbert VanRenesse
Tue Nov 15 12:09:10 EST 1994