Binary vote assignment on a grid for efficient access of replicated data
Authors:
M. Mat Deris a;
D. J. Evans b;
M. Y. Saman a;
A. Noraziah a
| Affiliations: | a Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University College of Science and Technology Malaysia, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| b Department of Computing, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England |
DOI:
10.1080/00207160310001620777
Publication Frequency:
15 issues per year
Published in:
International Journal of Computer Mathematics,
Volume
80,
Issue
12
December
2003
, pages 1489
- 1498
Subjects:
Analysis - Mathematics;
Bioinformatics;
Computer Mathematics;
Discrete Mathematics;
Mathematical Finance;
Mathematical Logic;
Mathematical Numerical Analysis;
Systems & Computer Architecture;
Number of References: 15
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Abstract
Data replication can be used to improve the availability of data in a distributed database system. In such a system, a mechanism is required to maintain the consistency of the replicated data. Grid structure (GS) technique based on quorum is one of the latest solutions for performing this while providing a high availability of the system. It was shown in the previous study, that it still requires a bigger number of copies be made available to construct a quorum. So it is not suitable for the large systems. In this paper, we propose a technique called the binary vote assignment on grid (BVAG) technique by considering only neighbors have the replicated data. In comparison to the GS technique, BVAG requires lower communication cost for an operation, while providing higher data availability, which is preferred for large systems.
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| Keywords: Distributed database; Replicated data; Binary grid assignment; Communication cost; Data availability |
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