Performance evaluation of different types of session guarantees version vectors

Session guarantees define consistency properties of replicas in a distributed system from the point of view of a single, migrating client. Consistency is checked by ensuring execution of required operations by servers. Consistency protocols of session gua- rantees usually use version vectors for efficient representation of sets of writes. This paper presents performance evaluation of several consistency protocols of session guarantees that use different forms of version vectors. The evaluation was carried out by means of simu- lation experiments.