Clock-related operations are one of the many sources of replica non-determinism and of replica inconsistency in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In passive replication, if the ...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
Abstract. Grid computing is based on coordinated resource sharing in a dynamic environment of multi-institutional virtual organizations. Data exchanges, and service allocation, are...
A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to interconnect with content providers to provide network services to customers. The current business model that connectivity...
Rendering networks and distributed systems self-managing and self-optimizing has become a major research focus. This task is especially important for systems, such as publish/subsc...