The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
The growth and popularity of loosely-coupled distributed systems such as the World Wide Web and the touting of Java-based systems as the solution to the issues of software mainten...
We introduce server operating systems, which are sets of abstractions and runtime support for specialized, highperformance server applications. We have designed and are implementi...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ga...
Applications of the future will need to support large numbers of clients and will require scalable storage systems that allow state to be shared reliably. Recent research in distr...
Liuba Shrira, Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Atul ...