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SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
CosNamingFT - A Fault-Tolerant CORBA Naming Service
This paper describes the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service - CosNamingFT. Every CORBA object is accessed through its Interoperable Object Referenc...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Jean-Marie Fa...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Trust and Electronic Commerce - More than a Technical Problem
In our paper we argue that the building of trust in electronic commerce depends only partly on technical security and the knowledge of security gaps and ways of closing them. It i...
Kornelia Konrad, Gerhard Fuchs, Jochen Barthel
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Logging and Recovery in Adaptive Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems
Software distributed shared memory (DSM) improves the programmability of message-passing machines and workclusters by providing a shared memory abstract (i.e., a coherent global a...
Angkul Kongmunvattana, Nian-Feng Tzeng
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Information Dissemination in Partitionable Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Ad-hoc wireless networks have no wired component, and may have unpredictable mobility pattern. Such networks can get partitioned and reconnected several times. One possible approa...
Goutham Karumanchi, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Ravi ...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Formal Hazard Analysis of Hybrid Systems in cTLA
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
Peter Herrmann, Heiko Krumm
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Highly Available Process Support Systems: Implementing Backup Mechanisms
Availability in Process Support Systems (PSS) can be achieved by using standby mechanisms that allow a backup server to take over in case a primary server fails. These mechanisms,...
Claus Hagen, Gustavo Alonso
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Replication Management in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
Failures of all forms happen: from losing single network packets to site-wide disasters. Since businesses rely heavily on their data, it is imperative that failures require minima...
Richard A. Golding, Elizabeth Borowsky
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Optimistic Recovery in Multi-threaded Distributed Systems
Om P. Damani, Ashis Tarafdar, Vijay K. Garg
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Fault Injection based on a Partial View of the Global State of a Distributed System
Validating distributed systems is particularly difficult, since failures may occur due to a correlated occurrence of faults in different parts of the system. This paper describes ...
Michel Cukier, Ramesh Chandra, David Henke, Jessic...
SRDS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Agent Platform for Reliable Asynchronous Distributed Programming
Production of reliable and flexible distributed applications is a growing area of interest and research. Various middleware technologies are often used as the communication infras...
Luc Bellissard, Noel De Palma, André Freyss...