In peer-to-peer storage systems, peers can freely join and leave the system at any time. Ensuring high data availability in such an environment is a challenging task. In this paper...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
—This paper proposes a new discrete-time queue analytical model based on BLUE algorithm in order to determine the network congestion in preliminary stages. We compare the origina...
Hussein Abdel-jaber, Michael E. Woodward, Fadi A. ...
Nodal network approaches are a common framework for considering water allocation in river basins. In this type of model framework, a river basin is represented as a series of node...
Rebecca A. Letcher, Barry F. W. Croke, Anthony J. ...