The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
This paper describes the application of advanced formal modelling techniques and tools from the CADP toolset to the verification of CFS, a distributed file system kernel. After a ...
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...
We consider an architecture for a serverless distributed file system that does not assume mutual trust among the client computers. The system provides security, availability, and ...
William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, David Ely, Ma...
With the Distributed File System Replication component, DFS-R, as the central theme, we present selected protocol problems and validation methods encountered during design and deve...