In a distributed file system built on network attached storage, client computers access data directly from shared storage, rather than submitting I/O requests through a server. W...
Randal C. Burns, Robert M. Rees, Darrell D. E. Lon...
Many peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been widely used for file sharing. A peer acts both as a content provider and a consumer, and is granted autonomy to decide what content, wit...
—Peer-to-peer file sharing applications became very popular, being responsible for a large percentage of the network traffic. However, peer-to-peer traffic may compromise the per...
Distributed applications using file sharing and file replication, conferencing, and delivery in multimedia systems often need to use the semantics of causal multicast. Causal mult...
Abstract-- Sharing data among collaborators in widely distributed systems remains a challenge due to limitations with existing methods for defining groups across administrative dom...