A distributed message delivery system can use replication to improve performance and availability. However, without safeguards, replicated messages may be delivered to a mobile de...
— A facility location problem deals with locating the best place for a group of facilities, among distinct demand points, minimizing a certain locational optimization function. I...
Abstract--We present and analyze two different power allocation strategies for considerably improving the average bit error rate (BER) performance of wireless multihop systems with...
We propose and analyze an architecture for storage servers in large Video on Demand (VoD) systems. We describe a method for distributing the collection of titles among the levels o...
1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral