Reliable Broadcast for Partitionable Networks

研究规划赠款是一次性奖励，旨在帮助 增加参与NSF的新女性研究人员的数量 研究计划，并促进初步研究和其他 与竞争性NSF研究发展相关的活动 提案 该项目将调查可靠的扩展 将概念广播到可划分的数据通信网络。 能够容忍网络分区的协议正在成为 随着越来越多的应用程序被运行， 广域网，其中故障可能导致分区。 甚至 在局域网中，抽头和网桥的使用可能会引入 可能导致分区的故障点。 的 该项目的目标是确定是否可靠的广播 这种方法已被证明是有效和有用的， 可分区的局域网可以适于处理 分区与合理数量的额外处理， 通信开销。

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.