— This paper studies multicast application overlay networks in a repeated-game framework. In these overlays, users have both the motivation and the means to alter their position...
The paper presents a primary-backup protocol to manage replicated in-memory database systems (IMDBs). The protocol exploits two features of IMDBs: coarse-grain concurrency control...
The cost of damage caused by flooding is directly related to the warning-time given before a flood occurs. Therefore, improving the coverage, accuracy and reliability of flood pre...
Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Geoff Coulson, Gordo...
We propose a novel method to measure the dependability of journaling file systems. In our approach, we build models of how journaling file systems must behave under different jo...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Rem...
Many routing protocols for MANETs do not promote a balanced use of resources among the participating nodes, since they are designed to optimize other criteria, such as the number ...