With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, many new server services are distributed in nature. We evaluated one hundred deployed systems and found that over a one-yea...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder, Paul Luse, Peng-Ju...
In a distributed system or communication network tasks may need to be executed on more than one processor. For time-critical tasks, the timing constraints are typically given as e...
Abstract. We propose FIT, a flexible, light-weight and real-time scheduling system for wireless sensor platforms. There are three salient features of FIT. First, its two-tier hiera...
Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Kougen Zheng, Rui Ch...
Abstract. Distributed moving object database servers are a feasible solution to the scalability problem of centralized database systems. In this paper we propose a distributed inde...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...