Data replication can help database systems meet the stringent temporal constraints of current time-critical applications, especially Internet-based services. A prerequisite, howev...
Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa,...
Stepwise refinement is at the core of many approaches to synthesis and optimization of hardware and software systems. For instance, it can be used to build a synthesis approach for...
Abstract—This paper looks at the scalability problems inherent in the Active Bat system: an outside-in ultrasonic location system. Such systems are typically associated with high...
Clustered applications in storage area networks (SANs), widely adopted in enterprise datacenters, have traditionally relied on distributed locking protocols to coordinate concurre...
This paper presents the SkipTree, a new balanced, distributed data structure for storing data with multidimensional keys in a peer-topeer network. The SkipTree supports range quer...