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Method for Group Communication Support in CORBA using OCI

OCI를 이용한 CORBA에서의 그룹 통신 지원 방법

  • Nam, Duk-Yun (Dept. of Engineering, Graduate School of Information and Communication University) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Man (Dept. of Engineering, Graduate School of Information and Communication University)
  • 남덕윤 (한국정보통신대학원대학교 공학부) ;
  • 이동만 (한국정보통신대학원대학교 공학부)
  • Published : 2002.08.01
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Abstract

Group communication is one of key components supporting object replication. CORBA provides little support for fault tolerance and high availability that can be supported by means of object replication. The existing approaches do not allow transparent plug-in of group communication protocols into CORBA with which CORBA application programmers are able to directly exploit group communication protocols. They either require modification of CORBA or OS, or provide no room for incorporating group communication transport protocols into CORBA. In this paper, we propose a generic group communication framework that allows transparent plug-in of various group communication protocols with no modification of standard CORBA. For this, we extend the Open Communications Interface(OCI) to support interoperability, reusability of existing group communication, and independency on ORB and OS. The proposed approach can also be applied to various group communication protocols.

그룹 통신은 객체 복제를 지원하는 주요 기술 중 하나이다. 현재의 CORBA 표준은 객체 복제를 이용하여 지원할 수 있는 고장 감내와 고 가용성을 지원하지 못한다. 지금까지의 CORBA 기반 그룹통신에 관한 연구들에서는 CORBA 애플리케이션 프로그래머가 그룹 통신 프로토콜을 직접 이용할 수 있는 방법이 없었다. 또한 CORBA 또는 OS의 수정이 요구되거나, 기존의 그룹 통신 프로토콜을 적용할 수 없었다. 본 연구에서는 표준 CORBA의 수정 없이 다양한 그룹 통신 프로토콜을 적용할 수 있는 일반적인 그룹 통신 프레임웍을 제안한다. 이를 위해 우리는 상호 운용성, 기존 그룹 통신 프로토콜의 재사용을 지원하고, ORB와 OS에 대한 독립성을 유지하며, 유연성 있는 하부 프로토콜 적용을 가능하게 하도록 하기 위해 OCI를 확장하였다. 또한 제안한 방법에는 기존의 다양한 그룹 통신 프로토콜이 적용될 수 있다.

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