Alvin: A Strongly Consistent and Highly Scalable Geo-Distributed Transactional Software System

Abstract

As systems become more geographically distributed and large-scale, communication issues become more onerous. Often consistency is sacrificed for performance and vice versa. The proposed research is to find an effective tradeoff between strong consistency with poor performance and weak consistency with good performance that is the current state.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2016
Source ID
FA95501510098

Entities

People

  • Binoy Ravindran

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • United States Air Force
  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.