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...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
The characterising new requirement for distributed multimedia applications is the coexistence of dynamic real-time and non-real-time applications on hosts and networks. While some...
As cluster computers are used for a wider range of applications, we encounter the need to deliver resources at particular times, to meet particular deadlines, and/or at the same t...
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concent...
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman, Matt Wels...
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...