"SRIRAM - A Scalable Resilient Autonomic Mesh"

Dinesh Verma, Sambit Sahu, Seraphin Calo, Anees Shaikh, Arup Acharya, and Isabella Chang

Mirroring and replication are common techniques for ensuring fault-tolerance and resiliency of client-server applications. Such mirroring and replication procedures are typically manual and cumbersome. In this paper, we present an architecture that can automate the processes of finding good sites for creating replicated servers, and creating replicas of applications. The scheme is based on the notion of a self-configuring mesh of computers that provides an efficient autonomic broadcast medium, locates potential replicas on the broadcast medium, and communicates with them to launch mirror servers automatically.