Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct...
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo I. Seltzer, Kostas Magou...
Abstract. Edge-server architectures are widely used to improve webapplication performance for non-transactional data. However, their use with transactional data is complicated by t...
Today’s applications are highly mobile; we download software from the Internet, machine executable code arrives attached to electronic mail, and Java applets increase the functi...
Abstract. The CORBA standard now incorporates support for reliability through two distinct mechanisms — replication (using the Fault Tolerant CORBA standard) and transactions (us...