In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highlyava...
Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarre...
Chain replication is a new approach to coordinating clusters of fail-stop storage servers. The approach is intended for supporting large-scale storage services that exhibit high t...
Designs for distributed systems must consider the possibility that failures will arise and must adopt specific failure detection strategies. We describe and analyze a self-regulat...
Kevin Mills, Scott Rose, Stephen Quirolgico, M. Br...
Vivid agents [48] are software-controlled systems whose state comprises the mental components of knowledge, perceptions, tasks, and intentions, and whose behaviour is represented ...
Smart dust motes are miniature self-contained systems that may be deployed in very large numbers. In military applications these devices are subject to different threats than conv...