— The BitTorrent (BT) file sharing protocol is popular due to its scalability property and the incentive mechanism to reduce free-riding. However, in designing such P2P file sh...
In a software system, it is inevitable that components will occasionally fail to produce acceptable results and become unavailable to serve its clients. Replication is the techniq...
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...
Distributed object systems for partitionable systems present a challenge, in that there is a trade-off between availability and consistency. Changes in one partition are not visib...
Stefan Beyer, Alexander Sanchez, Francesc D. Mu&nt...
We observe that an effect of "disk resource sharing" of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observatio...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...