SIAMDM
2002
13 years 3 months ago
2002
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
ADHOC
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Ensuring the consistency and the availability of replicated data in highly mobile ad hoc networks is a challenging task because of the lack of a backbone infrastructure. Previous ...
FTCS
1997
13 years 5 months ago
1997
This paper presents robust emulation of multi-writer/multi-reader registers in message-passing systems using dynamic quorum con gurations. In addition to processor and link failur...
OPODIS
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
This paper presents Timed Quorum System (TQS), a quorum system for large-scale and dynamic systems. TQS provides guarantees that two quorums, accessed at instances of time that are...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2000
IEEE
Providing shared-memory abstraction in messagepassing systems often simplifies the development of distributed algorithms and allows for the reuse of sharedmemory algorithms in the...
CCGRID
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Abstract-- We describe
FOCS
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
PODC
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2003
ACM
We investigate issues related to the probe complexity of quorum systems and their implementation in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is twofold. The first regards the algo...
ICPP
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper investigates the power mode management problem for an IEEE 802.11-based mobile ad hoc network (MANET) that allows mobile hosts to tune to the power-saving (PS) mode. The...
PODC
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...