Reliable Broadcast for Partitionable Networks

研究计划补助金是一种一次性奖励，旨在帮助增加参与NSF研究计划的新女性研究人员的数量，并促进与制定竞争性NSF研究提案有关的初步研究和其他活动。该项目将研究将可靠的广播概念扩展到可分区的数据通信网络。随着越来越多的应用程序在广域网络上运行，可以容忍网络分区的协议变得越来越重要，在广域网络中，故障可能会导致分区。即使在局域网中，使用分路器和网桥也可能引入可能的故障点，从而导致分区。这个项目的目标是确定可靠的广播方法是否可以用来处理具有合理数量的额外处理和通信开销的分区，该方法已被证明对不可分区的局域网有效和有用。

Research Planning Grants are one-time awards designed to help increase the number of new women investigators participating in NSF research programs, and to facilitate preliminary studies and other activities related to the development of competitive NSF research proposals. The project will investigate the extension of reliable broadcast concepts to partitionable data communication networks. Protocols that can tolerate network partitioning are becoming increasingly important as more applications are being run across wide-area networks in which failures may cause partitioning. Even with local area networks, the use of taps and bridges may introduce points of possible failure which can lead to partitioning. The objective of this project is to determine if the reliable broadcast approach which has proven to be efficient and useful for non- partitionable local area networks can be adapted to handle partitioning with a reasonable amount of additional processing and communication overhead.