Epidemic quorum systems enable highly available agreement even when a quorum is not simultaneously connected, and are therefore very interesting for mobile networks. Although rece...
In order to enable communication between a dynamic collection of peers with given ID’s, such as “machine.cs.school.edu”, over the Internet, a distributed name service must b...
A fault-scalable service can be configured to tolerate increasing numbers of faults without significant decreases in performance. The Query/Update (Q/U) protocol is a new tool t...
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. ...
Probabilistic quorum systems can tolerate a larger fraction of faults than can traditional (strict) quorum systems, while guaranteeing consistency with an arbitrarily high probabi...
The increasing popularity of cloud storage services has lead companies that handle critical data to think about using these services for their storage needs. Medical record databa...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel P. Correia, Bruno Qu...