A quorum system over a universe of logical elements is a collection of subsets (quorums) of elements, any two of which intersect. In numerous distributed algorithms, the elements ...
Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Flor...
In recent years, there have been a few proposals to add a small amount of trusted hardware at each replica in a Byzantine fault tolerant system to cut back replication factors. Th...
Allen Clement, Flavio Junqueira, Aniket Kate, Rodr...
Message-passing is an attractive thread coordination mechanism because it cleanly delineates points in an execution when threads communicate, and unifies synchronization and comm...
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Lukasz Ziarek, Raghavendra...
Partitioning is the dominant technique to transmit large files in peer-to-peer networks. A peer can redistribute each part immediately after its download. BitTorrent combines thi...
Arne Vater, Christian Schindelhauer, Christian Ort...
Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...