| dc.description.abstract | In the world of common mobility, where more and more people and organizations use
various mobile equipment such as phones, personal data assistants and other devices
the consistency of stored and exchanged data is a very important thing. Today the
flow of information, especially in business processes, can be very high and valuable,
and deformation of this data is unacceptable because it can lead to numerous misunderstandings.
The use of mobile devices and networked computers makes people want to have the
same data on all these devices. In case where a large number of devices stores huge
data sets which can be modified by hundreds of people, simple data copying is highly
unprofitable and time-consuming.
Nowadays, we can find a lot of various algorithms for set reconciliation designed
for various environments, devices. These algorithms have a variety of advantages, but
they also have a number of disadvantages which can limit their usefulness.
In this work, a few existing data synchronization algorithms are investigated and
compared. Their usefulness for various scenarios is described and analyzed. What is
more, this dissertation project also presents various gossip protocols which can be used
to disseminate messages in a network environment.
Finally, an architecture for multi-party synchronization of data sets in a network
environment is designed, implemented and examined by number of experiments with
various settings. | en |
