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Patrick Hunt commented on ZOOKEEPER-702: ---------------------------------------- Henry, I'm not seeing the applications on the gsoc site. Can you add me as appropriate? So that I can see the applications I mean. > GSoC 2010: Failure Detector Model > --------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-702 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-702 > Project: Zookeeper > Issue Type: Wish > Reporter: Henry Robinson > > Failure Detector Module > Possible Mentor > Henry Robinson (henry at apache dot org) > Requirements > Java, some distributed systems knowledge, comfort implementing distributed > systems protocols > Description > ZooKeeper servers detects the failure of other servers and clients by > counting the number of 'ticks' for which it doesn't get a heartbeat from > other machines. This is the 'timeout' method of failure detection and works > very well; however it is possible that it is too aggressive and not easily > tuned for some more unusual ZooKeeper installations (such as in a wide-area > network, or even in a mobile ad-hoc network). > This project would abstract the notion of failure detection to a dedicated > Java module, and implement several failure detectors to compare and contrast > their appropriateness for ZooKeeper. For example, Apache Cassandra uses a > phi-accrual failure detector (http://ddsg.jaist.ac.jp/pub/HDY+04.pdf) which > is much more tunable and has some very interesting properties. This is a > great project if you are interested in distributed algorithms, or want to > help re-factor some of ZooKeeper's internal code. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.