This paper presents a novel architecture called the MetaGrid based on Grid computing concepts for resource provisioning for wide-area network-enabled applications. Resource provis...
Data replication is a central technique to increase availability and performance of distributed systems. While offering many advantages it also requires more effort for ensuring d...
Daniel Klan, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Katja Hose, Marcel K...
We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view ...
Collaborative information systems in a P2P scenario are characterized by a set of independent peers that dynamically need to cooperate by sharing data and services. For effective c...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
This paper shows how a state-of-the-art software distributed shared-memory (DSM) protocol can be efficiently extended to tolerate single-node failures. In particular, we extend a ...