Abstract— The term Virtual Private Network (VPN) encompasses a wide array of diverse technologies and network architectures. All VPNs should provide users with the isolation and ...
Abstract. Distributedobject middleware, suchas CORBA, hides systemand network-speci c characteristics of objects behind functional interface speci cations. This simpli es developme...
Joseph P. Loyall, David E. Bakken, Richard E. Scha...
Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
In virtual machine environments each application is often run in its own virtual machine (VM), isolating it from other applications running on the same physical machine. Contentio...
Justin Cappos, Scott M. Baker, Jeremy Plichta, Duy...
Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...