— In distributed wireless access networks, the short-term unfairness of IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) has been revealed by many works. In this paper, a modi...
Abstract Designing and maintaining a distributed system requires consideration of dependencies and invariants in the system's model. This paper suggests expressing distributio...
Users of distributed databases and of distributed application frameworks require interoperation of heterogeneous data and components, respectively. In this paper, we examine how a...
centralized abstractions. The metaphor of a community of independent objects communicating by passing messages is misleading and dangerous when thinking in terms of a distributed s...
We propose a programming language, called PCML5, for building distributed applications with distributed access control. Target applications include web-based systems in which prog...