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ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Structuring Remote Object Systems for Mobile Hosts with Intermittent Connectivity
In distributed object systems, remote method inattempts to abstract communication between di erent machines to the level of object method invocation. Link failure in such systems ...
Girish Welling, Maximilian Ott
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Leases to Support Server-Driven Consistency in Large-Scale Systems
This paper introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases are a variation of leases, w...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Calvin L...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Some Economics of Market-Based Distributed Scheduling
Market mechanisms solve distributed scheduling problems by allocating the scheduled resources according to market prices. We model distributed scheduling as a discrete resource al...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Peter R. Wur...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Granularity Control for Distributed Execution of Logic Programs
Distributed execution of logic programs requires a match of granularity between a program and the distributed multi-processor it runs on to exploit its potential for performance f...
George Xirogiannis
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Framework for Dependability Driven Software Integration
The integration of system and SW functions for efciency, performance and especially dependability is of interest from a research and system design perspective. In this paper, we p...
Neeraj Suri, S. Ghosh, Thomas J. Marlowe
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CLIQUES: A New Approach to Group Key Agreement
This paper considers the problem of key agreement in a group setting with highly-dynamic group member population. A protocol suite, called CLIQUES, is developed by extending the w...
Michael Steiner, Gene Tsudik, Michael Waidner
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Language for Specifying the Composition of Reliable Distributed Applications
This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...
Frédéric Ranno, Santosh K. Shrivasta...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fast, Optimized Sun RPC Using Automatic Program Specialization
Fast remote procedure call (RPC) is a major concern for distributed systems. Many studies aimed at efficient RPC consist of either new implementations of the RPC paradigm or manua...
Gilles Muller, Renaud Marlet, Eugen-Nicolae Volans...