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IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Prioritized Token-Based Mutual Exclusion for Distributed Systems
A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...
Frank Mueller
HPCN
1998
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
PARAFLOW: A Dataflow Distributed Data-Computing System
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Roy Williams, Bruce Sears
RANDOM
1998
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...
Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt, Yongge Wang
ICMCS
1997
IEEE
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A Novel Video Layout Strategy for Near-Video-on-Demand Servers
Near-Video-on-Demand (NVOD) provides customers with a service model completely different from true Video-on-Demand (VOD). In the NVOD service model, customers’ requests are not ...
Shenze Chen, Manu Thapar
SPAA
1997
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated Objects in a Distributed Environment
Consider a set of shared objects in a distributed network, where several copies of each object may exist at any given time. To ensure both fast access to the objects as well as e ...
C. Greg Plaxton, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Andréa...