Replication of networking objects may increase the availability of the objects and the fault tolerance of the system. Network failures may split a group of nodes to separate partitions. To insure consistency among the replicated copies, we need a protocol (distributed algorithm) for controlling read and write operations on each copy. This paper proposes a protocol for handling multiple copies of an object Our protocol exploits the difference between read rate and write rate in order to provide higher availability. I.
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