In this paper, we describe an ongoing effort to define common APIs ctured peer-to-peer overlays and the key abstractions that can be built on them. In doing so, we hope to facilit...
Frank Dabek, Ben Y. Zhao, Peter Druschel, John Kub...
—The paper first discusses motivations why taking into account location information in authentication and access control is important. The paper then surveys current approaches t...
On-the-fly replacement of software may require simultanous distributed updates of components. If an update changes some interfaces or protocols, the update must be performed in a...
More than a decade after its invention, Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing finally seems to spark many research activities world wide. This article reviews the ideas b...
: As Century 21 just opened up, it is a fitting time to reflect on the evolution of the fault-tolerant distributed computing technology that occurred in the last century. The autho...