Sigma, the first single-round group membership (GM) algorithm, was recently introduced and demonstrated to operate consistently with theoretical expectations in a simulated WAN en...
A large number of papers have proposed cryptographic protocols for establishing secure group communication. These protocols allow group members to exchange or establish keys to en...
Ahren Studer, Christina Johns, Jaanus Kase, Kyle O...
This paper presents our experience in implementing OMG Unreliable Multicast Inter-ORB Protocol specifications into an ORB. An integration model is proposed to allow the coexistenc...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Sil...
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force...
We propose group communication as an efficient mechanism to support fault tolerance. Our approach is based on an efficient reliable broadcast protocol that requires on average onl...