A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
The Amoeba group communication system has two unique aspects: (1) it uses a sequencer-based protocol with negative acknowledgements for achieving a total order on all group messag...
The paper presents a fail-safe mobility management and a collision prevention platform for a group of asynchronous cooperative mobile robots. The fail-safe platform consists of a ...
The Collaborative Computing Transport Layer (CCTL) is a communication substrate consisting of a suite of multiparty protocols, providing varying service qualities among process gr...
Injong Rhee, Shun Yan Cheung, Phillip W. Hutto, Va...
This paper describes our preliminary analysis on the induction of communication protocols. Our work has two goals: (i) to recognize rules (i.e. protocols) from the communicative b...