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An Efficient Coordinator Election Algorithm in Synchronous Distributed Systems

동기적 분산 시스템에서 효율적인 조정자 선출 알고리즘

  • Published : 2004.10.01
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Abstract

Leader election is an important problem in developing fault-tolerant distributed systems. As a classic solution for leader election, there is Garcia-Molina's Bully Algorithm based on time-outs in synchronous systems. In this paper, we re-write the Bully Algorithm to use a failure detector instead of explicit time-outs. We show that this algorithm is more efficient than the Garcia-Molina's one in terms of the processing time. That is because the Bully_FD uses FD to know whether the process is up or down so fast and it speed up its execution time. Especially, where many processes are connected in the system and crash and recovery of processes are frequent, the Bully_FD algorithm is much more efficient than the classical Bully algorithm in terms of the processing time.

결함 허용(fault-tolerant) 분산 시스템 구축 시 리더 선출(leader election)은 중요한 문제이다. 전통적인 방법으로 타임아웃에 기초한 동기적 분산 시스템을 위한 불리(Bully) 알고리즘이 있다. 본 논문에서는 타임아웃보다는 Failure Detector를 이용한 수정된 불리 알고리즘을 제시하고, 또한 전통적인 불리 알고리즘과 비교하여 수정된 불리 알고리즘의 수행 속도가 빠름을 보여주고 있다. 그 이유는 수정된 불리 알고리즘 수행 시 각 프로세스의 정상적인 작동 여부를 FD를 이용하여 빠르게 처리함으로써 처리 속도의 효율성이 높다는 점이다. 특히 다수의 프로세스들이 시스템으로 연결되어 있고, 각 프로세스에서 작동하는 프로세스들의 고장과 회복이 빈번히 발생하는 분산 시스템에서 FD를 이용하는 불리 알고리즘의 수행 속도는 전통적인 불리 알고리즘에 비해 훨씬 빠름을 보여 준다.

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