High assurance security is di cult to achieve in distributed computer systems and databases because of their complexity, non-determinism and inherent heterogeneity. The practical ...
1 DOD Joint Vision 2020 (JV2020) is the integrated multi-service planning document for conduct among coalition forces of future warfare. It requires the confluence of a number of k...
— Static replicas have been proven useful in providing fault tolerance and load balancing, but they may not provide enough assurance on the continuous availability of missioncrit...
Chin-Tser Huang, Prasanth Kalakota, Alexander B. A...
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,...
We are investigating strategies for using replication to design and implement highly reliable peer-to-peer systems. In particular, we are comparing the use of whole object and blo...
Ranjita Bhagwan, David Moore, Stefan Savage, Geoff...