ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Heartbeat protocols are used by distributed programs to ensure that if a process in a program terminates or fails, then the remaining processes in the program terminate. We presen...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
We introduce a new performance metric, called Load Balancing Factor (LBF), to assist programmers with evaluating different tuning alternatives. The LBF metric differs from traditi...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper discusses wireless channel allocation problem for data dissemination in mobile computing systems. Methods for accessing data through broadcast and on-demand channels ar...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Ad-hoc networks consist of a set of mobile hosts that communicate using wireless links, without the use of other communication support facilities (such as base stations). The topo...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
As Java is the preferred platform for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java desktop. We experimented with using the Ja...
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Network applications and services need to be environment-aware in order to meet non-functional requirements in increasingly dynamic contexts. In this paper we consider partition a...