—P2P storage systems use replication to provide a certain level of availability. While the system must generate new replicas to replace replicas lost to permanent failures, it ca...
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Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
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A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...
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