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Distributed System: Group Communication

This document discusses different types of group communication that can occur in distributed systems, including unicast, multicast, and broadcast communication. It also describes types of groups like closed, open, and peer groups. Group management can be done through centralized or distributed approaches. Group addressing involves high-level names that are independent of processes and low-level names that depend on hardware.

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Distributed System: Group Communication

This document discusses different types of group communication that can occur in distributed systems, including unicast, multicast, and broadcast communication. It also describes types of groups like closed, open, and peer groups. Group management can be done through centralized or distributed approaches. Group addressing involves high-level names that are independent of processes and low-level names that depend on hardware.

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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

GROUP COMMUNICATION
Group Communication

• Depending on single or multiple senders and receivers, the following three types of group
communication are possible:
• Unicast – One to one communication
• One to many (Single sender and multiple receivers. Or multicast group communication).
• Many to one (Multiple senders and single receivers).
• Many to many (Multiple senders and multiple receivers).
Unicast Group Communication

• Process sending message to another process


residing on another node.
Many to one communication

• Many processes residing on different nodes


sending message to a single process on a
node.
• Ex- File server
• Maintain request queue.
Multi cast communication

• One to many group communication called –


Multicast communication.

Broadcast communication
• It is a special type of multicast
communication, as shown in fig. One
processor sends the same message to several
destination with a single operation.
Types of Groups

• In broadcast communication depends on how the group interacts with


other group outside the system.
• Closed groups: Parallel processing application use closed group
communication.
• Open groups: Outside process can send a message to a group as a whole.
• Peer group: All process are equal and there is no single point of failure.
• Hierarchical group: In this group coordinator decides which worker
should carry out the tasks.
Group Management
• Centralized approach
• Distributed approach
Group addressing
• The high-level group name is an ASCII string that
is independent of the processes in the group.

• On the other hand, the low-level group name


depends to a large extent on the underlying
hardware.
Group addressing
• A packet sent to a broadcast address, is
automatically delivered to all machines in the
network.

• The software of each machine must check to see


if the packet is intended for it.

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