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Atomic Transfer For Distributed Systems, Haraldur Darri Thorvaldsson
Atomic Transfer For Distributed Systems, Haraldur Darri Thorvaldsson
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Building applications and information systems increasingly means dealing with concurrency and faults stemming from distribution of system components. Atomic transactions are a well-known method for transferring the responsibility for handling concurrency and faults from developers to the software's execution environment, but incur considerable execution overhead. This dissertation investigates methods that shift some of the burden of concurrency control into the network layer, to reduce response times and increase throughput. It anticipates future programmable network devices, enabling customized high-performance network protocols.
We propose Atomic Transfer (AT), a distributed algorithm to prevent race conditions due to messages crossing on a path of …