In this work we present the Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP), a middleware created to allow the sharing of storage resources, implemented as part of the network fabric. IBP allow...
Alessandro Bassi, Micah Beck, Graham E. Fagg, Terr...
—Switch-trees are peer-to-peer algorithms for building and improving end-host multicast trees. Nodes switch parents to reduce tree cost or lower source-member latency. A node swi...
Efficient schemes for deploying and maintaining widearea services and accessing such services are essential if the Internet is to sustain itself as the communication medium for b...
High speed bulk data transfer is an important part of many data-intensive scientific applications. This paper describes an aggressive bulk data transfer scheme, called Reliable Bl...
Eric He, Jason Leigh, Oliver T. Yu, Thomas A. DeFa...
We describe the communication infrastructure (CI) for our fault-tolerant cluster middleware, which is optimized for two classes of communication: for the applications and for the ...
Ming Li, Wenchao Tao, Daniel Goldberg, Israel Hsu,...