As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
— The dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks poses fundamental challenges to the design of service composition schemes that can minimize the effect of service disruptions. Alth...
Multi-master update everywhere database replication, as achieved by protocols based on group communication such as DBSM and Postgres-R, addresses both performance and availability...
Cryptography is the ancient science of encrypting messages so that only the sender and receiver can recover them. To achieve this goal, an agreed key between the sender and receive...
: We present a new model for handling messages and state in a distributed application that we call Messages in Local Transactions (MLT). Under this model, messages and data are not...