SIAMDM
2002
14 years 6 days ago
2002
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
ADHOC
2007
14 years 20 days ago
2007
Ensuring the consistency and the availability of replicated data in highly mobile ad hoc networks is a challenging task because of the lack of a backbone infrastructure. Previous ...
FTCS
1997
14 years 1 months ago
1997
This paper presents robust emulation of multi-writer/multi-reader registers in message-passing systems using dynamic quorum con gurations. In addition to processor and link failur...
OPODIS
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
This paper presents Timed Quorum System (TQS), a quorum system for large-scale and dynamic systems. TQS provides guarantees that two quorums, accessed at instances of time that are...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Providing shared-memory abstraction in messagepassing systems often simplifies the development of distributed algorithms and allows for the reuse of sharedmemory algorithms in the...
CCGRID
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
Abstract-- We describe
FOCS
1994
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1994
IEEE
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
PODC
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
We investigate issues related to the probe complexity of quorum systems and their implementation in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is twofold. The first regards the algo...
ICPP
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper investigates the power mode management problem for an IEEE 802.11-based mobile ad hoc network (MANET) that allows mobile hosts to tune to the power-saving (PS) mode. The...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...