—This paper presents QuoCast, a resource-aware protocol for reliable stream diffusion in unreliable environments, where processes may crash and communication links may lose messa...
In this paper we define the Weak Mutual Exclusion (WME) problem. Analogously to classical Distributed Mutual Exclusion (DME), WME serializes the accesses to a shared resource. Di...
With the development of embedded and mobile systems, Java is widely used for application programs and is also considered for implementing systems kernel or application platforms. I...
The number of applications with many parallel cooperating processes is steadily increasing, and developing efficient runtimes for their execution is an important task. Several fram...
—User-level communication allows an application process to access the network interface directly. Bypassing the kernel requires that a user process accesses the network interface...