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2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Evaluation of fault-tolerant policies using simulation
— Various mechanisms for fault-tolerance (FT) are used today in order to reduce the impact of failures on application execution. In the case of system failure, standard FT mechan...
Anand Tikotekar, Geoffroy Vallée, Thomas Na...
PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
DSN
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
On the Quality of Service of Failure Detectors
ÐWe study the quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors. By QoS, we mean a specification that quantifies 1) how fast the failure detector detects actual failures and 2) how we...
Wei Chen, Sam Toueg, Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
GIS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Decentralized querying of topological relations between regions without using localization
This paper proposes an efficient, decentralized algorithm for determining the topological relationship between two regions monitored by a geosensor network. Many centralized algo...
Matt Duckham, Myeong Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Joche...
PADL
2012
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Typing the Numeric Tower
In the past, the creators of numerical programs had to choose between simple expression of mathematical formulas and static type checking. While the Lisp family and its dynamically...
Vincent St-Amour, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Matthew Fla...