—Social sign-on and social sharing are becoming an ever more popular feature of web applications. This success is largely due to the APIs and support offered by prominent social ...
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...
In this paper, we present STP, a system in which communicating end hosts use untrusted mobile code to remotely upgrade each other with the transport protocols that they use to com...
Parveen Patel, Andrew Whitaker, David Wetherall, J...
Consider a distributed network of n nodes that is connected to a global source of “beats”. All nodes receive the “beats” simultaneously, and operate in lock-step. A scheme ...
At the TCP sender side, the arrival of an ack packet always triggers the sender to send data packets, which establishes a correspondency between the arrived ack packet and the sen...