Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...
Abstract Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide an efficient support for serving http and streaming media content while minimizing the network impact of content delivery as well...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
ing Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance MIGUEL CASTRO Microsoft Research and RODRIGO RODRIGUES and BARBARA LISKOV MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Software errors are a major...