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1 Response vs. N Responses

When sending a request to a group, there might be none, one or more responses, depending on the policy chosen. Sometimes just the first response received is needed (e.g. in actively replicated servers), while at other times all responses are needed (e.g. results of a computation, load-balanced over all members of a group).



Bela Ban
1998-08-06