Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
In order to enable communication between a dynamic collection of peers with given ID’s, such as “machine.cs.school.edu”, over the Internet, a distributed name service must b...
In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
Louisiana State University’s Biomedical Research Center is going through a major expansion in reaching its 5 year strategic plan. With expansion comes an opportunity to “get t...
Currently the Internet has only one level of name resolution, DNS, which converts user-level domain names into IP addresses. In this paper we borrow liberally from the literature ...
Hari Balakrishnan, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sylvi...