A major limitation in the basic client/server model is its focus on clients requesting individual
services. Clients often need to invoke multiple services, coordinated to reflect how those …

By understanding how real users have employed reliable multicast in real distributed
systems, we can develop insight concerning the degree to which this technology has …

The mechanisms used to improve the reliability of distributed systems often limit
performance and scalability. Focusing on one widely‐used definition of reliability, we …

In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual
synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical question of …

In my first lecture, I gave a general introduction to distributed operating systems. In this one, I
would like to go into some detail about a specific example of a distributed operating system …

A computing environment (2) includes multiple CPUs (5 ac), multiple nonshared memory
spaces and a means for implementing a select system call (10 ac). The connection …

Services are autonomous, self-describing, technology-neutral software units that can be
published, discovered, queried, and composed into software applications at runtime …

This paper presents two novel generic adaptive batching schemes for replicated servers.
Both schemes are oblivious to the underlying communication protocols. Our novel schemes …

The future of supercomputing lies in massively parallel computers. The nodes of these
machines will need a different kind of operating system than current computers have. Many …

This paper focuses on distributed task allocation mechanisms in Open Multi-Agents
Systems. Our aim is to provide task allocation protocols for building Multi-Agents Systems in …