The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is being used for an increasing number of distributed directory applications. We describe a tool to analyze the performance of LDA...
Xin Wang, Henning Schulzrinne, Dilip D. Kandlur, D...
Workstations typically depend on remote servers accessed over a network for such services as mail, printing, storing files, booting, and time. The availability of these remote ser...
Andy Hisgen, Andrew Birrell, Timothy Mann, Michael...
This paper suggests that a distributed system should support two communication paradigms: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and group commumcation. The former is used for point-to-point...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Kees Verst...
As we approach nation-wide integration of computer systems, it is clear that le replication will play a key role, both to improve data availability in the face of failures, and to...
Richard G. Guy, John S. Heidemann, Wai-Kei Mak, Th...
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...