Developing fault tolerant ambient systems requires many challenging factors to be considered due to the nature of such systems, which tend to contain a lot of mobile elements that...
Alexei Iliasov, Alexander Romanovsky, Budi Arief, ...
Clock-related operations are one of the many sources of replica non-determinism and of replica inconsistency in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In passive replication, if the ...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
The grid computing paradigm emerged recently as a new field distinguished from traditional distributed computing because of its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovativ...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, D...
Virtual machine monitors, especially when used for server consolidation, need to enforce a predefined sharing of resources among the running virtual machines. We propose a new me...
The Java language incurs a runtime overhead for exception checks and object accesses without an interior pointer in order to ensure safety. It also requires type inclusion test, d...