In peer-to-peer storage systems, peers can freely join and leave the system at any time. Ensuring high data availability in such an environment is a challenging task. In this paper...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
State-of-the-art automatic reliability analyses as used in system-level design approaches mainly rely on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and, thus, face two serious problems: (1) ...
eScience - enhanced science - is a new paradigm of scientific work and research. In the humanities, eScience environments can be helpful in establishing new workflows and lifecycl...
Marie Hinrichs, Thomas Zastrow, Erhard W. Hinrichs
It is shown that bandwidth estimation in packet networks can be viewed in terms of min-plus linear system theory. The available bandwidth of a link or complete path is expressed i...