—Popular online services such as social networks, e-commerce and bidding are routinely hosted in large-scale data centers. Group communication systems (e.g., multicast) and distr...
Karthik Nagaraj, Hitesh Khandelwal, Charles Edwin ...
We consider an overlay architecture (called OMNI) where service providers deploy a set of service nodes (called MSNs) in the network to efficiently implement media-streaming appli...
Suman Banerjee, Christopher Kommareddy, Koushik Ka...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
Distributed applications mostly interact by exchanging messages. For this purpose the messages often need to be ordered. Since today more and more mobile devices are used message o...