—P2P storage systems use replication to provide a certain level of availability. While the system must generate new replicas to replace replicas lost to permanent failures, it ca...
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
Abstract. As grids typically consist of autonomously managed subsystems with strongly varying resources, fault-tolerance forms an important aspect of the scheduling process of appl...
Maria Chtepen, Filip H. A. Claeys, Bart Dhoedt, Fi...
Soft state in the middle tier is key to enabling scalable and responsive three tier service architectures. While softstate can be reconstructed upon failure, replicating it across...
Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Rob...
With the development of Internet-based business, Web applications are becoming increasingly complex. The J2EE specification aims at enabling the design of such web application ser...