TPDS
1998
14 years 3 months ago
1998
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...
SIAMDM
2002
14 years 3 months 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...
ALGORITHMICA
2005
14 years 3 months ago
2005
Quorum systems are a mechanism for obtaining fault-tolerance and efficient distributed systems. We consider geographic quorum systems; a geographic quorum system is a partition of...
DC
2010
14 years 3 months ago
2010
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...
CNIS
2006
14 years 4 months ago
2006
There are many essential applications for quorum systems in ad-hoc networks, such as that of location servers in large-scale networks. Existing research proposes many approaches t...
OPODIS
2008
14 years 4 months ago
2008
Probabilistic quorum systems can tolerate a larger fraction of faults than can traditional (strict) quorum systems, while guaranteeing consistency with an arbitrarily high probabi...
FOCS
1994
IEEE
14 years 7 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
1997
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
1997
ACM
Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
EUROCRYPT
1998
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
1998
Springer
Abstract. This paper describes e cient protocols for multi-party computations that are information-theoretically secure against passive attacks. The results presented here apply to...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 8 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...