MDC-Cast: A Total-Order Broadcast Protocol for Multi-Datacenter Environments

Abstract

The recent Total-Order Broadcast protocols that have been designed to sustain high throughput and low latency target fully switched environments, such as small datacenters and clusters. These protocols fail to achieve good performance in multi-datacenter environments, that are characterized by non-uniform network connectivity among a set of remote datacenters. More precisely, machines within a datacenter are connected using a fully switched network, whereas machines across datacenters use shared inter-datacenter network cables. This paper presents a novel Total-Order Broadcast protocol, called MDC-cast that specifically targets multi-datacenter environments.