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There are several alternative mechanisms for disseminating information among a group of participants in a distributed environment. An efficient model is to use epidemic algorithms that involve pair-wise propagation of information. These algorithms are based on the theory of epidemics which studies the spreading of infectious diseases through a population. Epidemic protocols are simple, scale well and robust again common failures, and provide eventual consistency as well. They have been mainly utilized in a large set of applications for resolving inconsistencies in distributed database updates, failure detection, reliable multicasting, network news distribution, scalable system management, and resource discovery. A popular distribution model based on the theory of epidemics is the anti-entropy. In this study, we focus on pull-based anti-entropy model used for multicast reliability as a case study, demonstrate its scalability and robustness, and give our comparative simulation results discussing the performance of the approach on a range of typical scenarios.
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Özkasap, Ö. (2003). Scalability and Robustness of Pull-Based Anti-entropy Distribution Model. In: Yazıcı, A., Şener, C. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2003. ISCIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2869. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39737-3_116
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