Although in recent years the concept of leasing has become more and more popular in the field of distributed object-oriented systems, it has not yet been incorporated in the curre...
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a fully distributed directory service for Farsite, a logically centralized file system that is physically implemented on a...