Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabili...
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
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...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service - CosNamingFT. Every CORBA object is accessed through its Interoperable Object Referenc...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Jean-Marie Fa...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...