A recent theoretical result proposed Sigma, a novel GM protocol that forms views using a singleround of message exchange. Prior GM protocols have required more rounds in the worst...
Group communication provides one-to-many communication primitives that simplify the development of highly available services. Despite advances in research and numerous prototypes,...
Traditional client-server content distribution techniques usually suffer from scalability problems when dealing with large client population or sizable content. The advent of peer...
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Recent hardware advances are creating multi-core systems with heterogeneous functionality. This paper explores how applications and middleware can utilize systems comprised of pro...
Sanjay Kumar, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Sri...