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ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Proxy Cache Coherency and Replacement - Towards a More Complete Picture
This work studies the interaction of Web proxy cache coherency and replacement policies using trace-driven simulations. We specifically examine the relative importance of each typ...
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig E. Wills
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Inter-group Router Approach to Scalable Group Composition
This paper examines the problem of building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems from collections of communicating process groups, while maintaining well-defined end-to-en...
Scott Johnson, Farnam Jahanian, Jigney Shah
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
NAP: Practical Fault-Tolerance for Itinerant Computations
NAP, a detection and recovery based scheme for implementing fault-tolerant itinerant computations, is presented. We give the semantics for the scheme and describe a protocol that ...
Dag Johansen, Keith Marzullo, Fred B. Schneider, K...
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids
We describe imprecise calendars, a way to organize and schedule clusters of nodes in a computation grid. Imprecise calendars permit the easy and efficient sharing of resources bet...
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Songrit Maneewongvatana
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Swarm Scalable Storage System
Swarm is a storage system that provides scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data storage. Swarm is based on storage servers, rather than file servers; the storage servers are o...
John H. Hartman, Ian Murdock, Tammo Spalink
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond the Black Box: Event-based Inter-Process Communication in Process Support Systems
Existing workflow management systems encapsulate the data and behavior of a process within its execution scope, preventing other processes from accessing this information until th...
Claus Hagen, Gustavo Alonso
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing
To provide real-time service or engineer constrained-based paths, networks require the underlying routing algorithm to be able to find low-cost paths that satisfy given Quality-of...
Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Interpreting Stale Load Information
In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...
Michael Dahlin