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Publication
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Paper
Fault Tolerant Queries in Computer Networks
Abstract
In computer networks with decentralized control, it is necessary to provide a distributed query mechanism, whereby a node can dynamically discover the location of a remote resource, In this paper, we propose a query mechanism based on flooding with feedback, which uses no more than two messages over any link. We examine the fault tolerant aspects of this distributed query mechanism, operating in a network where links and nodes may fail and show that, under certain conditions, the resource is indeed found. We then construct enhancements to this mechanism, where the conditions under which the resource is found are substantially relaxed, at the cost of some increase in message complexity. © 1994 IEEE