In Swarm-based Peer-to-Peer Streaming (SPS) mechanisms, participating peers form a randomly connected mesh over which they incorporate swarm-like content delivery. In practice, a ...
Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations is publicly avai...
This paper presents an attempt of using intelligent agents for testing and repairing a distributed system, whose elements may or may not have embedded BIST (Built-In Self-Test) an...
Abstract—In distributed storage systems built using commodity hardware, it is necessary to store multiple replicas of every data chunk in order to ensure system reliability. In s...
—Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-pee...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Brighten Godfrey, Martin J....