Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...
Aggregation refers to a set of functions that provide global information about a distributed system. These functions operate on numeric values distributed over the system and can ...
Peer-assisted online storage and distribution systems have recently enjoyed large-scale deployment gaining increased popularity for multimedia content sharing in the Internet. Suc...
Fault-tolerant protocols, asynchronous and synchronous alike, make stationary fault assumptions: only a fraction f of the total n nodes may fail. Whilst a synchronous protocol is ...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...
This paper reports our experiences on the Scalable Network Of Workstation (SNOW) project, which implements a novel methodology to support user-level process migration for traditio...