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ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Low-Cost Error Containment and Recovery Methods for Guarded Software Upgrading
To assure dependable onboard evolution, we have developed a methodology called guarded software upgrading (GSU). In this paper, we focus on a low-cost approach to error containmen...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Cha...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures: Integration and Experiments
The increasing popularity and diversity of collaborative applications prompts a need for highly secure and reliable communication platforms for dynamic peer groups. Security mecha...
Jonathan Robert Stanton, Yair Amir, Damian Hasse, ...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems
This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
Frank Siqueira, Vinny Cahill
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Supporting Weakly-Connected Browsing in a Mobile Web Environment
A mobile environment is weakly-connected, characterized by low communication bandwidth and poor connectivity. Conventional paradigm for sur ng mobile web documents is ine ective s...
Antonio Si, Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Stanley ...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Partitionable Light-Weight Groups
Group communication, providing virtual synchrony semantics, is a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. For applications that require a large number of groups, s...
Luís Rodrigues, Katherine Guo
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems
Buffered coscheduling is a distributed scheduling methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in a distributed system, e.g., PC cluster. The principle mechanisms involved...
Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System
Several studies in network traffic characterization have concluded that network traffic is self-similar and therefore not readily amenable to statistical multiplexing in a distr...
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Wu-chun Feng, Ian R. ...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems
Replication is an area of interest to both distributed systems and databases. The solutions developed from these two perspectives are conceptually similar but differ in many aspec...
Fernando Pedone, Matthias Wiesmann, André S...