Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
Constructing logical machines out of collections of physical machines is a well-known technique for improving the robustness and fault tolerance of distributed systems. We present...
Yair Amir, Brian A. Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John La...
Thousands of competing autonomous systems must cooperate with each other to provide global Internet connectivity. Each autonomous system (AS) encodes various economic, business, a...
Users are storing ever-increasing amounts of information digitally, driven by many factors including government regulations and the public’s desire to digitally record their per...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
This paper presents robust emulation of multi-writer/multi-reader registers in message-passing systems using dynamic quorum con gurations. In addition to processor and link failur...