Abstract. Rampart is a toolkit of protocols to facilitate the development of high-integrity services, i.e., distributed services that retain their availability and correctness desp...
Many fault-tolerant group communication middleware systems have been implemented assuming crash failure semantics. While this assumption is not unreasonable, it becomes hard to ju...
Dimane Mpoeleng, Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Neil A. Spe...
Atomicity (or linearizability) is a commonly used consistency criterion for distributed services and objects. Although atomic object implementations are abundant, proving that algo...
Gregory Chockler, Nancy A. Lynch, Sayan Mitra, Jos...
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...
: Making cloud services responsive is critical to providing a compelling user experience. Many largescale sites, including LinkedIn, Digg and Facebook, address this need by deployi...