Group communication protocols are used in fault-tolerant systems to maintain strong replica consistency. The FaultTolerant Multicast Protocol (FTMP) described here is a group comm...
Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Ruppert R. K...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...
Abstract— Today’s middleware applications tend to be complicated, and consist of tiers that form a nested chain of objects or processes. For a real-time nested application, pre...
This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...
Present-day object-oriented middleware provides little support for the distribution, replication and caching of the state of a distributed object. This makes these platforms unsui...
Arno Bakker, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbau...