Replication is widely used in unstructured peer-to-peer systems to improve search or achieve availability. We identify and solve a subclass of replication problems where each obje...
Christof Leng, Wesley W. Terpstra, Bettina Kemme, ...
There is a growth in the popularity of social file sharing systems. This paper describes the design of Cattail, a social file sharing system for the enterprise. Through a ‘Recen...
N. Sadat Shami, Michael J. Muller, David R. Millen
Locating physical items is a highly relevant application addressed by numerous systems. Many of these systems share the drawback that costly infrastructure must be installed before...
Christian Frank, Philipp Bolliger, Christof Rodune...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...
In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...