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...
The New Zealand Digital Library offers several collections of information over the World Wide Web. Although fulltext indexing is the primary access mechanism, musical collections ...
Object-orientation and distributed systems are quickly becoming norms for new system development, generating renewed interest in distribution schemes traditionally directed at rela...
We have created ZapC, a novel system for transparent coordinated checkpoint-restart of distributed network applications on commodity clusters. ZapC provides a thin virtualization ...
Abstract— Spectrum-agile radios, also known as cognitive radios, have a great potential to improve spectrum utilization by enabling dynamic access to the spectrum. A key challeng...