Quorum-based Total Order Broadcast System

Alessandro Rizzetto - Taras Rashkevych

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Description
• Features
• System Requirements
• Installation
• Usage

Description

This project implements a quorum-based total order broadcast system using Akka. It ensures all replicas within a distributed system can handle updates and apply them in a consistent order, despite potential node failures.

Features

• Two-phase broadcast protocol for update management.
• Resilience to node failures with dynamic coordinator election.
• Implements read and write operations on replicas with sequential consistency guaranteed.

System Requirements

• Java 11 or higher
• Akka 2.6
• Gradle 7 or newer (for building and managing dependencies)

Installation

Clone this repository and build the project using Gradle:

git clone hhttps://github.com/AlessandroRizzetto/distributed-systems.git
cd distributed-systems
gradle build

Usage

Run the system using:

gradle run

Test the system using:

Uncomment one test at the time in the Main class and run the by following the suggested guidelines.