Over the last few years, application-layer multicast (ALM) has emerged as a plausible solution for supporting group-oriented applications. However, ALM suffers from inefficiency ...
— The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, more than a decade after its initial proposal,...
This paper presents a methodology for interoperability testing based on contextual signatures and passive testing with invariants. The concept of contextual signature offers a fra...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...