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TMM
2002
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13 years 6 months ago
Staggered push - a linearly scalable architecture for push-based parallel video servers
With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...
Jack Y. B. Lee
ASIAN
2003
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 2003»
13 years 12 months ago
Unreliable Failure Detectors via Operational Semantics
Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...
Uwe Nestmann, Rachele Fuzzati
MMS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Asynchronous reflections: theory and practice in the design of multimedia mirror systems
-- In this paper, we present a theoretical framing of the functions of a mirror by breaking the synchrony between the state of a reference object and its reflection. This framing p...
Wei Zhang, Bo Begole, Maurice Chu
WDAG
2010
Springer
196views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Brief Announcement: Failure Detectors Encapsulate Fairness
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Scott M. Pike, Srikanth Sastry, Jennifer L. Welch
CODES
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Performance debugging of Esterel specifications
Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written in Esterel are based...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Abhik Roychoudhury, Samar...