— The aim of this article is to propose and analyse measurement-based admission control schemes. We distinguish between large-scale and small-scale systems, where scale is measur...
Consensus is known to be a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Solving this problem provides the means for distributed processes to agree on a single value....
This paper describes the design and implementation of an embedded-type XML storage and retrieval system which is built on top of relational databases. The proposed system stores ea...
It is necessary to have the precise definition of available performance of high availability systems that can represent the availability and performability of the systems altogethe...
Malleable jobs are parallel programs that can change the number of processors on which they are executing at run time in response to an external command. One of the advantages of ...