Large-scale donation-based distributed infrastructures need to cope with the inherent unreliability of participant nodes. A widely-used work scheduling technique in such environme...
Krishnaveni Budati, Jason D. Sonnek, Abhishek Chan...
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...
—Some current and future pervasive data driven applications must operate in ”extreme” environments where endto-end connectivity cannot be guaranteed at all times. In fact, it...
Mobile databases are a centerpiece of the dramatic growth of data-centric applications for mobile computing, nomadic communication and wireless networks. Replication of database c...
Communication environments are becoming increasingly more complex due to the diversity of available network technologies in terms of spatial coverage and design characteristics, a...