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...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...
Database replication based on group communication systems has recently been proposed as an efficient and resilient solution for large-scale data management. However, its evaluati...
Abstract— Adding SDMA capabilities to modern wireless communication systems like IEEE 802.16 WiMAX promises high system capacity gains but raises the problem of combining orthogo...
Christian Hoymann, Jan Ellenbeck, Ralf Pabst, Marc...
Abstract—People waste many hours driving each day. Although unavoidable, this time can be very boring to motorists. Similar to people taking mass transit who often pass the time ...
Lu Han, Stephen Smaldone, Pravin Shankar, James Bo...