Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...
In this work, we address Byzantine agreement in a message passing system with homonyms, i.e. a system with a number l of authenticated identities that is independent of the total ...
Collaborative capabilities are a hallmark of a new generation of networked applications. While traditional collaboration puts the computer in the foreground to help users interfac...
In this paper, we define and study a new class of capacity planning models called MAP queueing networks. MAP queueing networks provide the first analytical methodology to describe ...
To achieve high reliability and scalability, most large-scale data warehouse systems have adopted the cluster-based architecture. In this paper, we propose the design of a new clu...
Yuting Lin, Divyakant Agrawal, Chun Chen, Beng Chi...