A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) of servers, where any two quorums intersect. Quorumbased protocols underly modern edge-computing architectures and throughput-sca...
Distributed storage systems employ replicas or erasure code to ensure high reliability and availability of data. Such replicas create great amount of network traffic that negative...
Abstract. Robots coordinate among themselves to select one of them to respond to an event reported to one of robots. The goal is to minimize the communication cost of selecting bes...
Distributed peer-to-peer systems rely on voluntary participation of peers to effectively manage a storage pool. In such systems, data is generally replicated for performance and a...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, An...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to international standards via telephone modem, radio and satel...