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SRDS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
POSH: Proactive co-Operative Self-Healing in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks
Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are composed of many small resource-constrained devices and operate autonomously, gathering data which is periodically collected by a v...
Roberto Di Pietro, Di Ma, Claudio Soriente, Gene T...
FAST
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System
This paper presents a distributed mobile storage system designed for storage elements connected by a network of non-uniform quality. Flexible data placement is crucial, and it lea...
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen L...
OSDI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled...
Michael Burrows
SAC
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Serpentine: adaptive middleware for complex heterogeneous distributed systems
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...
Miguel Matos, Alfrânio Correia Jr., Jos&eacu...
SKG
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Using Ontologies to Support Customisation and Maintain Interoperability in Distributed Information Systems with Application to t
Abstract. Global distributed systems must be standards-based to allow interoperability between all of their components. While this guarantees interoperability, it often causes loca...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...