In today’s systems, applications are composed from various components that may be located on different machines. The components (acting as servers) may have to collaborate in or...
Replication is crucial to achieve high availability distributed systems. However, non-determinism introduces consistency problems between replicas. Transactions are very well suite...
Orphan requests are a significant problem for multi-tier distributed systems since they adversely impact system correctness by violating the exactly-once semantics of application...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...
Abstract-Requirement: Clients should experience high-availability when accessing network services. Availability should be transparent and not require altering programs. Problem: Av...