Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-6-2011
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Abstract
The Web Services Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) specification makes it possible for businesses to engage in standard distributed transaction processing over the Internet using Web Services technology. For such business applications, trustworthy coordination of WS-AT is crucial. In this paper, we explain how to render WS-AT coordination trustworthy by applying Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) techniques. More specifically, we show how to protect the core services described in the WS-AT specification, namely, the Activation service, the Registration service, the Completion service and the Coordinator service, against Byzantine faults. The main contribution of this work is that it exploits the semantics of the WS-AT services to minimize the use of Byzantine Agreement (BA), instead of applying BFT techniques naively, which would be prohibitively expensive. We have incorporated our BFT protocols and mechanisms into an open-source framework that implements the WS-AT specification. The resulting BFT framework for WS-AT is useful for business applications that are based on WS-AT and that require a high degree of dependability, security, and trust.
Repository Citation
Zhang, Honglei; Chai, Hua; Zhao, Wenbing; Melliar-Smith, P.M.; and Moser, L.E., "Trustworthy Coordination for Web Services Atomic Transactions" (2011). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. 250.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/enece_facpub/250
DOI
10.1109/TPDS.2011.292
Version
Postprint
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Volume
23
Issue
8
