To deal with the frequent, foreseeable and variable disconnections that occur in a mobile environment, we introduce a exible, two-level consistency model. Semantically related or ...
Quorum systems are a mechanism for obtaining fault-tolerance and efficient distributed systems. We consider geographic quorum systems; a geographic quorum system is a partition of...
The "nearest neighbor" relation, or more generally the "k nearest neighbors" relation, defined for a set of points in a metric space, has found many uses in co...
Power control is becoming a key challenge for effectively operating a modern data center. In addition to reducing operating costs, precisely controlling power consumption is an es...