—The adoption of wireless vehicular communication technologies would strongly depend on the technologies transmission reliability, required by QoS demanding traffic safety applic...
In this paper, we argue that there is a need for an event-based middleware to build large-scale distributed systems. Existing publish/subscribe systems still have limitations comp...
We describe the design of Mariposa, an experimental distributed data management system that provides high performance in an environment of high data mobility and heterogeneous hos...
Michael Stonebraker, Paul M. Aoki, Robert Devine, ...
The popularity of distributed file systems continues to grow in last years. The reasons they are preferred over traditional centralized systems include fault tolerance, availabili...
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...