Group-based gossip multicast protocol for efficient and fault tolerant message dissemination in clouds

Abstract

Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing paradigm that provides services in a virtualized form composed of plenty of sharable resources. In cloud computing environments, gossip protocols are engaged as a method to rapidly disseminate the state information for innumerable resources. Although the gossip protocols provide a robust and scalable multicast, there is a drawback that requires redundant messages in satisfying 100% of reliability. In our study, we propose a Group-based Gossip Multicast Protocol to reduce the message overhead while delivering the state information efficiently and fault tolerantly. Furthermore, we verified the performance of the proposed protocol through experiments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.