Group communication provides one-to-many communication primitives that simplify the development of highly available services. Despite advances in research and numerous prototypes,...
This paper suggests that a distributed system should support two communication paradigms: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and group commumcation. The former is used for point-to-point...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Kees Verst...
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundat...
In a distributed multi-user game, entities need to communicate their state information to other entities. Usually only a subset of the game's entities are interested in infor...