The increasingly common practice of replicating datasets and using resources as distributed data stores in Grid environments has led to the problem of determining which replica ca...
Abstract–Multimedia computing requires support for heterogeneous data types with differing storage, communication and delivery requirements. Continuous media data types such as ...
Sequential consistency is the archetypal correctness condition for the memory protocols of shared-memory multiprocessors. Typically, such protocols are parameterized by the number ...
Jesse D. Bingham, Anne Condon, Alan J. Hu, Shaz Qa...
In this paper we present a quantitative study of data survival in peer to peer storage systems. We first recall two main redundancy mechanisms: replication and erasure codes, whic...
: DQ metadata can be stored in a Metadata Repository (MDR). The structure of the MDR should be carefully defined to ensure a maximum amount of flexibility, generality and ease of u...
David Becker, William McMullen, Kevin Hetherington...