Distributed Algorithms with DDS

Angelo
Corsaro,
PhD

Chief
Technology
Officer

angelo.corsaro@prismtech.com
Classical Distributed
Algorithms with DDS

CopyrightPrismTech,2015
The Data Distribution Service (DDS) provides a very useful foundation for building
highly dynamic, reconfigurable, dependable and high performance systems
However, in building distributed systems with DDS one is often faced with two
kind of problems:
- How can distributed coordination problems be solved with DDS?
e.g. distributed mutual exclusion, consensus, etc
- How can higher order primitives and abstractions be supported over DDS?
e.g. fault-tolerant distributed queues, total-order multicast, etc.
In this presentation we will look at how DDS can be used to implement some of
the classical Distributed Algorithm that solve these problems
Context

DDS Abstractions and Properties

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Data Distribution Service (DDS)
‣ DDS provides a Global Data Space
abstraction that allows applications
to autonomously, anonymously,
securely and efﬁciently share data
‣ DDS’ Global Data Space is fully
distributed, highly efﬁcient and
scalable
DDS Global Data Space
...
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Writer
TopicA
QoS
TopicB
QoS
TopicC
QoS
TopicD
QoS

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Data Distribution Service (DDS)
‣ DataWriters and DataReaders are
automatically and dynamically
matched by the DDS Discovery
‣ A rich set of QoS allows to control
existential, temporal, and spatial
properties of data
...
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Writer
TopicA
QoS
TopicB
QoS
TopicC
QoS
TopicD
QoS

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Fully Distributed Data Space
Conceptual Model Actual Implementation
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Writer
TopicA
QoS
TopicB
QoS
TopicC
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicA
QoS
...
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Writer
TopicA
QoS
TopicB
QoS
TopicC
QoS
TopicD
QoS

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Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Writer
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Reader
Data
Writer
TopicA
QoS
TopicB
QoS
TopicC
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicD
QoS
TopicA
QoS
Fully Distributed Data Space
The
communication

between
the

DataWriter
and
the

DataReader
can
use

UDP/IP
(Unicast

and
Multicast)or

TCP/IP

Vortex supports the definition of Data
Models.
These data models allow to naturally
represent physical and virtual entities
characterising the application
domain
Vortex types are extensible and
evolvable, thus allowing incremental
updates and upgrades
Data Centricity

A Topic defines a domain-wide information’s class
A Topic is defined by means of a (name, type, qos)
tuple, where
• name: identifies the topic within the domain
• type: is the programming language type
associated with the topic. Types are
extensible and evolvable
• qos: is a collection of policies that express
the non-functional properties of this topic,
e.g. reliability, persistence, etc.
Topic
Topic
Type
Name
QoS
struct
TemperatureSensor
{

@key

long
sid;

float
temp;

float
hum;

}

Each unique key value identifies a
unique stream of data
DDS not only demultiplexes
“streams” but provides also
lifecycle information
A DDS DataWriter can write
multiple instances
Topic Instances
Topic
InstancesInstances
color =”Green”
color =”red”
color = “Blue”
struct ShapeType {
@Key string color;
long x; long y;
long shapesize;};

Vortex “knows” about
application data types
and uses this
information provide
type-safety and content-
based routing
Content Awareness
struct
TemperatureSensor
{

@key

long
sid;

float
temp;

float
hum;

}

sid temp hum
101 25.3 0.6
507 33.2 0.7
913 27,5 0.55
1307 26.2 0.67
“temp
>
25
OR
hum
>=
0.6”
sid temp hum
101 25.3 0.6
507 33.2 0.7
1307 26.2 0.67
Type
TempSensor

For data to flow from a DataWriter (DW) to
one or many DataReader (DR) a few
conditions have to apply:
The DR and DW domain participants have
to be in the same domain
The partition expression of the DR’s
Subscriber and the DW’s Publisher should
match (in terms of regular expression
match)
The QoS Policies oﬀered by the DW should
exceed or match those requested by the DR
Quality of Service
Domain
Participant
DURABILITY
OWENERSHIP
DEADLINE
LATENCY BUDGET
LIVELINESS
RELIABILITY
DEST. ORDER
Publisher
DataWriter
PARTITION
DataReader
Subscriber
Domain
Participant
offered
QoS
Topic
writes reads
Domain Id
joins joins
produces-in consumes-from
RxO QoS Policies
requested
QoS

Anatomy of a DDS Application
Domain (e.g. Domain 123)
Domain
Participant
Topic
Publisher
DataWrter
Subscriber
DataReader
Partition (e.g. “Telemetry”, “Shapes”, )
Topic Instances/Samples

We can think of a DataWriter and its matching
DataReaders as connected by a logical typed
communication channel
The properties of this channel are controlled by
means of QoS Policies
At the two extreme this logical communication
channel can be:
- Best-Eﬀort/Reliable Last n-values Channel
- Best-Eﬀort/Reliable FIFO Channel
Channel Properties
DR
DR
DR
TopicDW

The last n-values channel is useful when modelling
distributed state
When n=1 then the last value channel provides a way of
modelling an eventually consistent distributed state
This abstraction is very useful if what matters is the
current value of a given topic instance
The Qos Policies that give a Last n-value Channel are:
- RELIABILITY = RELIABLE
- HISTORY = KEEP_LAST(n)
- DURABILITY = TRANSIENT | PERSISTENT [in most cases]
Last n-values Channel
DR
DR
DR
TopicDW

The FIFO Channel is useful when we care about every single
sample that was produced for a given topic -- as opposed to the
“last value”
This abstraction is very useful when writing distributing
algorithm over DDS
Depending on Qos Policies, DDS provides:
- Best-Eﬀort/Reliable FIFO Channel
- FT-Reliable FIFO Channel (using an OpenSplice-specific extension)
The Qos Policies that give a FIFO Channel are:
- RELIABILITY = RELIABLE
- HISTORY = KEEP_ALL
FIFO Channel
DR
DR
DR
TopicDW

We can think of a DDS Topic as defining a group
The members of this group are matching DataReaders
and DataWriters
DDS’ dynamic discovery manages this group
membership, however it provides a low level interface
to group management and eventual consistency of
views
In addition, the group view provided by DDS makes
available matched readers on the writer-side and
matched-writers on the reader-side
This is not suﬀicient for certain distributed algorithms.
Membership
DR
DR
DR
TopicDW
DataWriter Group View
DW
DW DRTopic
DW
DataReader Group View

DDS provides built-in mechanism for
detection of DataWriter faults through the
LivelinessChangedStatus
A writer is considered as having lost its
liveliness if it has failed to assert it within its
lease period
Fault-Detection
DW
DW DRTopic
DW
DataReader Group View

Partially Synchronous
- After a Global Stabilisation Time (GST) communication latencies are bounded, yet
the bound is unknown
Non-Byzantine Fail/Recovery
- Process can fail and restart but don’t perform malicious actions
System Model

The algorithms that will be showed next are implemented on OpenSplice using
the Moliere Scala API
All algorithms are available as part of the Open Source project dada
Programming Environment
! DDS-based Advanced Distributed
Algorithms Toolkit
!Open Source
!github.com/kydos/dada

A Group Management abstraction should
provide the ability to join/leave a group,
provide the current view and detect
failures of group members
Ideally group management should also
provide the ability to elect leaders
A Group Member should represent a
process
Group Management
abstract class Group {
// Join/Leave API
def join(mid: Int)
def leave(mid: Int)
// Group View API
def size: Int
def view: List[Int]
def waitForViewSize(n: Int)
def waitForViewSize(n: Int,
timeout: Int)
// Leader Election API
def leader: Option[Int]
def proposeLeader(mid: Int, lid: Int)
// Reactions handling Group Events
val reactions: Reactions
}
case class MemberJoin(val mid: Int)
case class MemberLeave(val mid: Int)
case class MemberFailure(mid:Int)
case class EpochChange(epoch: Long)
case class NewLeader(mid: Option[Int])

To implement the Group abstraction with support for Leader Election it is
suﬀicient to rely on the following topic types:
Topic Types
enum TMemberStatus {
JOINED,
LEFT,
FAILED,
SUSPECTED
};
struct TMemberInfo {
long mid; // member-id
TMemberStatus status;
};
#pragma keylist TMemberInfo mid
struct TEventualLeaderVote {
long long epoch;
long mid;
long lid; // voted leader-id
};
#pragma keylist TEventualLeaderVote mid

Group Management
The TMemberInfo topic is used to advertise presence and manage the members state
transitions
Leader Election
The TEventualLeaderVote topic is used to cast votes for leader election
This leads us to:
Topic(name = MemberInfo, type = TMemberInfo,
QoS = {Reliability.Reliable, History.KeepLast(1), Durability.TransientLocal})
Topic(name = EventualLeaderVote, type = TEventualLeaderVote,
QoS = {Reliability.Reliable, History.KeepLast(1), Durability.TransientLocal}
Topics

Notice that we are using two Last-Value Channels for implementing both the
(eventual) group management and the (eventual) leader election
This makes it possible to:
- Let DDS provide our latest known state automatically thanks to the TransientLocal
Durability
- No need for periodically asserting our liveliness. DDS will do that for our DataWriter
Observation

At the beginning of each epoch the leader is None
Each new epoch a leader election algorithm is run
Leader Election
M1
M2
M0
crashjoin
join
join
epoch = 0 epoch = 1 epoch = 2 epoch = 3
Leader: None => M1 Leader: None => M1 Leader: None => M0 Leader: None => M0

To isolate the traffic generated by different groups, we use the group-id gid to
name the partition in which all the group related traffic will take place
Distinguishing Groups
“1”
“2”
“3” DDS Domain
Partition associated to
the group with gid=2

Events provide notification of group
membership changes
These events are handled by
registering partial functions with the
Group reactions
Example object GroupMember {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
if (args.length < 2) {
println("USAGE: GroupMember <gid> <mid>")
sys.exit(1)
}
val gid = args(0).toInt
val mid = args(1).toInt
val group = Group(gid)
group.join(mid)
val printGroupView = () => {
print("Group["+ gid +"] = { ")
group.view foreach(m => print(m + " "))
println("}")}
group listen {
case MemberFailure(mid) => {
println("Member "+ mid + " Failed.")
printGroupView()
}
case MemberJoin(mid) => {
println("Member "+ mid + " Joined")
printGroupView()
}
case MemberLeave(mid) => {
println("Member "+ mid +" Left")
printGroupView()
}
}
}
}
[1/2]

An eventual leader election algorithm can
be implemented by simply casting a vote
each time there is an group epoch change
A Group Epoch change takes place each
time there is a change on the group view
The leader is eventually elected only if a
majority of the process currently on the
view agree
Otherwise the group leader is set to
“None”
Example[2/2]
object EventualLeaderElection {
println("USAGE: GroupMember <gid> <mid>")
sys.exit(1)
}
group.join(mid)
group listen {
case EpochChange(e) => {
val lid = group.view.min
group.proposeLeader(mid, lid)
}
case NewLeader(l) =>
println(">> NewLeader = "+ l)
}
}
}

A relatively simple Distributed Mutex Algorithm was proposed by Leslie Lamport
as an example application of Lamport’s Logical Clocks
The basic protocol (with Agrawala optimization) works as follows (sketched):
- When a process needs to enter a critical section sends a MUTEX request by tagging
it with its current logical clock
- The process obtains the Mutex only when he has received ACKs from all the other
process in the group
- When process receives a Mutex requests he sends an ACK only if he has not an
outstanding Mutex request timestamped with a smaller logical clock
Lamport’s Distributed Mutex

A base class defines the Mutex Protocol
The Mutex companion uses dependency
injection to decide which concrete mutex
implementation to use
Mutex Abstraction
abstract class Mutex { 
def acquire()
def release()
}

The mutual exclusion algorithm requires essentially:
- FIFO communication channels between group members
- Logical Clocks
- MutexRequest and MutexAck Messages
These needs, have now to be translated in terms of topic types, topics, readers/
writers and QoS Settings
Foundation Abstractions

For implementing the Mutual Exclusion Algorithm it is suﬀicient to define the
following topic types:
Topic Types
struct TLogicalClock {
long ts;
long mid;
};
#pragma keylist LogicalClock mid
struct TAck {
long amid; // acknowledged member-id
LogicalClock ts;
};
#pragma keylist TAck ts.mid

We need essentially two topics:
One topic for representing the Mutex Requests, and
Another topic for representing Acks
This leads us to:
Topic(name = MutexRequest, type = TLogicalClock,
QoS = {Reliability.Reliable, History.KeepAll})
Topic(name = MutexAck, type = TAck,
Topics

All the algorithms presented were implemented using DDS and Scala
The resulting library has been baptized “dada” (DDS Advanced Distributed
Algorithms) and is available under LGPL-v3
Show me the Code!

The LCMutex is one of the possible Mutex protocol, implementing the Agrawala
variation of the classical Lamport’s Algorithm
LCMutex
class LCMutex(val mid: Int, val gid: Int, val n: Int)(implicit val logger: Logger) extends Mutex {
private var group = Group(gid)
private var ts = LogicalClock(0, mid)
private var receivedAcks = new AtomicLong(0)
private var pendingRequests = new SynchronizedPriorityQueue[LogicalClock]()
private var myRequest = LogicalClock.Infinite
private val reqDW =
DataWriter[TLogicalClock](LCMutex.groupPublisher(gid), LCMutex.mutexRequestTopic, LCMutex.dwQos)
private val reqDR =
DataReader[TLogicalClock](LCMutex.groupSubscriber(gid), LCMutex.mutexRequestTopic, LCMutex.drQos)
private val ackDW =
DataWriter[TAck](LCMutex.groupPublisher(gid), LCMutex.mutexAckTopic, LCMutex.dwQos)
private val ackDR =
DataReader[TAck](LCMutex.groupSubscriber(gid), LCMutex.mutexAckTopic, LCMutex.drQos)
private val ackSemaphore = new Semaphore(0)

LCMutex.acquire
def acquire() {
ts = ts.inc()
myRequest = ts
reqDW write myRequest
ackSemaphore.acquire()
}
Notice that as the LCMutex is
single-threaded we can’t
issue concurrent acquire.

LCMutex.release
Notice that as the LCMutex is
single-threaded we can’t
issue a new request before
we release.
def release() {
myRequest = LogicalClock.Infinite
(pendingRequests dequeueAll) foreach { req =>
ts = ts inc()
ackDW write new TAck(req.id, ts)
}
}

LCMutex.onACK
ackDR listen {
case DataAvailable(dr) => {
// Count only the ACK for us
val acks = ((ackDR take) filter (_.amid == mid))
val k = acks.length
if (k > 0) {
// Set the local clock to the max (tsi, tsj) + 1
synchronized {
val maxTs = math.max(ts.ts, (acks map (_.ts.ts)).max) + 1
ts = LogicalClock(maxTs, ts.id)
}
val ra = receivedAcks.addAndGet(k)
val groupSize = group.size
// If received sufficient many ACKs we can enter our Mutex!
if (ra == groupSize - 1) {
receivedAcks.set(0)
ackSemaphore.release()
}
}
}
}

LCMutex.onReq
reqDR.reactions += {
case DataAvailable(dr) => {
val requests = (reqDR take) filterNot (_.mid == mid)
if (requests.isEmpty == false ) {
synchronized {
val maxTs = math.max((requests map (_.ts)).max, ts.ts) + 1
ts = LogicalClock(maxTs, ts.id)
}
requests foreach (r => {
if (r < myRequest) {
ts = ts inc()
val ack = new TAck(r.mid, ts)
ackDW ! ack
None
}
else {
(pendingRequests find (_ == r)).getOrElse({
pendingRequests.enqueue(r)
r})
}
})
}
}
}

A distributed queue conceptually provides the ability of enqueueing and
dequeueing elements
Depending on the invariants that are guaranteed the distributed queue
implementation can be more or less eﬀicient
In what follows we’ll focus on a relaxed form of distributed queue, called
Eventual Queue, which while providing a relaxed yet very useful semantics is
amenable to high performance implementations
Distributed Queue Abstraction

Invariants
- All enqueued elements will be eventually dequeued
- Each element is dequeued once
- If the queue is empty a dequeue returns nothing
- If the queue is non-empty a dequeue might return something
- Elements might be dequeued in a diﬀerent order than they are enqueued
Eventual Queue Specification
DR
DR
DR
DW
DW
DW
DR
Distributed Eventual Queue

Invariants
- All enqueued elements will be eventually dequeued
- Each element is dequeued once
- If the queue is empty a dequeue returns nothing
- If the queue is non-empty a dequeue might return something
- Elements might be dequeued in a diﬀerent order than they are enqueued
Eventual Queue Specification
DR
DR
DR
DW
DW
DW
Distributed Eventual Queue
DR

A Queue can be seen as the composition of two
simpler data structure, a Dequeue and an Enqueue
The Enqueue simply allows to add elements
The Enqueue simply allows to get elements
Eventual Queue Abstraction
trait Enqueue[T] {
def enqueue(t: T)
}
trait Dequeue[T] {
def dequeue(): Option[T]
def sdequeue(): Option[T]
def length: Int
def isEmpty: Boolean = length == 0
}
trait Queue[T]
extends Enqueue[T] with Dequeue[T]

One approach to implement the eventual queue on DDS is to keep a local queue
on each of the consumer and to run a coordination algorithm to enforce the
Eventual Queue Invariants
The advantage of this approach is that the latency of the dequeue is minimized
and the throughput of enqueues is maximised (we’ll see this latter is really a
property of the eventual queue)
The disadvantage, for some use cases, is that the consumer need to store the
whole queue locally thus, this solution is applicable for either symmetric
environments running on LANs
Eventual Queue on DDS

All enqueued elements will be eventually dequeued
Each element is dequeued once
If the queue is empty a dequeue returns nothing
If the queue is non-empty a dequeue might return something
- These invariants require that we implement a distributed protocol for ensuring that
values are eventually picked up and picked up only once!
Elements might be dequeued in a diﬀerent order than they are enqueued
Eventual Queue Invariants & DDS

All enqueued elements will be eventually dequeued
If the queue is empty a dequeue returns nothing
If the queue is non-empty a dequeue might return something
Elements might be dequeued in a different order than they are enqueued
- This essentially means that we can have different local order for the queue elements on each
consumer. Which in turns means that we can distribute enqueued elements by simple DDS
writes!
- The implication of this is that the enqueue operation is going to be as efficient as a DDS write
- Finally, to ensure eventual consistency in presence of writer faults we’ll take advantage of
OpenSplice’s FT-Reliability!
Eventual Queue Invariants & DDS

A possible Dequeue protocol can be derived by the Lamport/Agrawala Distributed Mutual
Exclusion Algorithm
The general idea is similar as we want to order dequeues as opposed to access to some
critical section, however there are some important details to be sorted out to ensure that
we really maintain the eventual queue invariants
Key Issues to Address
- DDS provides eventual consistency thus we might have wildly diﬀerent local view of the
content of the queue (not just its order but the actual elements)
- Once a process has gained the right to dequeue it has to be sure that it can pick an element
that nobody else has picked just before. Then he has to ensure that before he allows
anybody else to pick a value his choice has to be popped by all other local queues
Dequeue Protocol: General Idea

To implement the Eventual Queue over DDS
we use three diﬀerent Topic Types
The TQueueCommand represents all the
commands used by the protocol (more later
on this)
TQueueElement represents a writer time-
stamped queue element
Topic Types
struct TLogicalClock {
long long ts;
long mid;
};
enum TCommandKind {
DEQUEUE,
ACK,
POP
};
struct TQueueCommand {
TCommandKind kind;
long mid;
TLogicalClock ts;
};
#pragma keylist TQueueCommand
typedef sequence<octet> TData;
struct TQueueElement {
TLogicalClock ts;
TData data;
};
#pragma keylist TQueueElement

To implement the Eventual Queue we need only two topics:
One topic for representing the queue elements
Another topic for representing all the protocol messages. Notice that the choice
of using a single topic for all the protocol messages was carefully made to be
able to ensure FIFO ordering between protocol messages
Topics

This leads us to:
Topic(name = QueueElement, type = TQueueElement,
Topic(name = QueueCommand, type = TQueueCommand,
Topics

Dequeue Protocol: A Sample Run
deq():a
a, ts
b, ts’
app 1
(1,1)
req {(1,2)}
deq():b
ack {(2,2)}
(1,1)
(1,2)
pop{ts, (3,1)}req {(1,1)}
1 1 2
1 1 2 3
3
ack {(4,1)}
4
pop{ts, (5,2)}
app 2
b, ts’
a, ts
(1,2) (1,1)
(1,2)
b, ts’
b, ts’
(1,2) (1,2)
’

Example: Producer
object MessageProducer {
println("USAGE:nt MessageProducer <mid> <gid> <n> <samples>")
sys.exit(1)
}
val n = args(2).toInt
val samples = args(3).toInt
group listen {
case MemberJoin(mid) => println("Joined M["+ mid +"]")
}
group.join(mid)
group.waitForViewSize(n)
val queue = Enqueue[String]("CounterQueue", mid, gid)
for (i <- 1 to samples) {
val msg = "MSG["+ mid +", "+ i +"]"
println(msg)
queue.enqueue(msg)
// Pace the write so that you can see what's going on
Thread.sleep(300)
}
}
}

Example: Consumer
object MessageConsumer {
println("USAGE:nt MessageProducer <mid> <gid> <readers-num> <n>")
sys.exit(1)
}
val rn = args(2).toInt
val n = args(3).toInt
group.reactions += {
case MemberJoin(mid) => println("Joined M["+ mid +"]")
}
group.join(mid)
group.waitForViewSize(n)
val queue = Queue[String]("CounterQueue", mid, gid, rn)
val baseSleep = 1000
while (true) {
queue.sdequeue() match {
case Some(s) => println(Console.MAGENTA_B + s + Console.RESET)
case _ => println(Console.MAGENTA_B + "None" + Console.RESET)
}
val sleepTime = baseSleep + (math.random * baseSleep).toInt
Thread.sleep(sleepTime)
}
}
}

The algorithms presented so far can be easily extended to deal with failures by
taking advantage of group abstraction presented earlier
The main issue to carefully consider is that if a timing assumption is violated
thus leading to falsely suspecting the crash of a process safety of some of those
algorithms might be violated!
Fault-Detectors

Paxos is a protocol for state-machine replication proposed by Leslie Lamport in
his “The Part-time Parliament”
The Paxos protocol works in under asynchrony -- to be precise, it is safe under
asynchrony and has progress under partial synchrony (both are not possible under
asynchrony due to FLP) -- and admits a crash/recovery failure mode
Paxos requires some form of stable storage
The theoretical specification of the protocol is very simple and elegant
The practical implementations of the protocol have to fill in many hairy details...
Paxos in Brief

The Paxos protocol considers three diﬀerent kinds of agents (the same process can play
multiple roles):
- Proposers
- Acceptors
- Learners
To make progress the protocol requires that a proposer acts as the leader in issuing
proposals to acceptors on behalf of clients
The protocol is safe even if there are multiple leaders, in that case progress might be scarified
- This implies that Paxos can use an eventual leader election algorithm to decide the
distinguished proposer
Paxos in Brief

Paxos Synod Protocol

Paxos in Action
C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
[Leader]

Paxos in Action -- Phase 1A
C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
[Leader]
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
phase1A(c-rnd)

Paxos in Action -- Phase 1B
C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
[Leader]
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
phase1B(rnd, v-rnd, v-val)

Paxos in Action -- Phase 2A
C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
[Leader]
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
phase2A(c-rnd, c-val)

C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
[Leader]
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
phase2B(v-rnd, v-val)

C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pk
[Leader]
A2
Am
A1
L2
Lh
L1
Decision(v-val)

The Eventual queue we specified on the previous section can be implemented
using an adaptation of the Paxos protocol
In this case, consumers don’t cache locally the queue but leverage a mid-tier
running the Paxos protocol to serve dequeues
Eventual Queue with Paxos
C1
C2
Cn
P1
P2
Pm[Learners]
Pi
Ai
[Proposers]
[Acceptors]
[Eventual Queue]
L1 [Learners]

DDS provides a good foundation to eﬀectively and eﬀiciently express some of the
most important distributed algorithms
- e.g. DataWriter fault-detection and FT-Reliable Multicast
dada provides access to reference implementations of many of the most
important distributed algorithms
- It is implemented in Scala, but that means you can also use these libraries from
Java too!
Concluding Remarks

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struct Point3D : Point { long z }

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