One of the most important abstractions for designing distributed programs is the broadcast facility. In this paper, we study the interconnection of distributed message passing systems. We have shown that totally ordered systems cannot be properly interconnected in any form. However, we have provided a simple protocol to properly interconnect FIFO ordered systems.
['Ángel Medina Álvarez', 'Sergio Arévalo', 'Vicent Cholvi', 'Antonio Fernández', 'Ernesto Jiménez']
On the interconnection of message passing systems