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M. Poke, T. Hoefler, C. W. Glass:

 AllConcur: Leaderless Concurrent Atomic Broadcast

(presented in Washington, DC, USA, pages , ACM, ISBN: , Jun. 2017)

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Abstract

Many distributed systems require coordination between the components involved. With the steady growth of such systems, the probability of failures increases, which necessitates scalable fault-tolerant agreement protocols. The most common practical agreement protocol, for such scenarios, is leader-based atomic broadcast. In this work, we propose AllConcur, a distributed system that provides agreement through a leaderless concurrent atomic broadcast algorithm, thus, not suffering from the bottleneck of a central coordinator. In AllConcur, all components exchange messages concurrently through a logical overlay network that employs early termination to minimize the agreement latency. Our implementation of AllConcur supports standard sockets-based TCP as well as high-performance InfiniBand Verbs communications. AllConcur can handle up to 135 million requests per second and achieves 17x higher throughput than today’s standard leader-based protocols, such as Libpaxos. Thus, AllConcur is highly competitive with regard to existing solutions and, due to its decentralized approach, enables hitherto unattainable system designs in a variety of fields.

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@inproceedings{allconcur,
  author={Marius Poke and Torsten Hoefler and C. W. Glass},
  title={{AllConcur: Leaderless Concurrent Atomic Broadcast}},
  year={2017},
  month={06},
  pages={},
  location={Washington, DC, USA},
  publisher={ACM},
  isbn={},
}