We consider the problem of handling similarity queries in peer-to-peer databases. Given a query for a data object, we propose an indexing and searching mechanism which returns the...
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srinivas R. Kashyap, Sriniv...
We prove two theorems saying that no distributed system in which processes coordinate using reliable registers and -resilient services can solve the consensus problem in the prese...
Paul C. Attie, Rachid Guerraoui, Petr Kouznetsov, ...
The group mutual exclusion problem extends the traditional mutual exclusion problem by associating a type with each critical section. In this problem, processes requesting critica...
In this paper we present 411, a password distribution system for high performance environments that provides security and scalability. We show that existing solutions such as NIS ...
Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, Philip M. Pa...
In this paper, we argue that a broad range of Internet-scale distributed applications can benefit from an underlying low-cost consistency detection framework – an alternative to...
Abstract. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application deployment and monitoring in large-scale, distributed environments, few tools provide a unified framewor...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. S...
good data partitioning scheme is the need of the time. However it is very diflcult to arrive at a good solution as the number of possible dutupartitionsfor a given real lifeprogra...