Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Abstract. Developing distributed multiplayer games for ad-hoc networks is challenging. Consistency of the replicated shared state is hard to ensure at a low cost. Current consisten...
QSM is a multicast engine designed to support a style of distributed programming in which application objects are replicated among clients and updated via multicast. The model req...
The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed applications. These applications are difficult to develop either for fully wired or mobile wireless networks. ...