: A general purpose group communication protocol suite called Newtop is described. It is assumed that processes can simultaneously belong to many groups, group size could be large,...
This paper describes improvements to the Mach microkernel’s support for efficient application startup across multiple nodes in a cluster or massively parallel processor. Signifi...
Dejan S. Milojicic, David L. Black, Steven J. Sear...
In this paper we investigate the limits of routing according to left- or righthand rule (LHR). Using LHR, a node upon receipt of a message will forward to the neighbour that sits ...
As more and more multi-tier services are developed from commercial components or heterogeneous middleware without the source code available, both developers and administrators nee...
Zhihong Zhang, Jianfeng Zhan, Yong Li, Lei Wang, D...
Byzantine fault tolerant systems behave correctly when no more than f out of 3f + 1 replicas fail. When there are more than f failures, traditional BFT protocols make no guarantee...