Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
In this paper we illustrate the use of formal methods in the development of a benchmark application we call the Village Telephone System which is characteristic of a class of netwo...
Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gun...
As multicast applications are deployed for mainstream use, the need to secure multicast communications will become critical. Multicast, however, does not t the point-to-point mod...
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...