View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for
many distributed applications. Much current research has been dedicated to specifying the …

One might expect the reliability of a distributed system to correspond directly to the reliability
of its constituents, but this is not always the case. The mechanisms used to structure a …

We introduce the concept of unreliable failure detectors and study how they can be used to
solve Consensus in asynchronous systems with crash failures. We characterise unreliable …

In this paper we introduce a system called Crowds for protecting users' anonymity on the
world-wide-web. Crowds, named for the notion of “blending into a crowd,” operates by …

F28D15/00—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in
closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls; Heat-exchange apparatus employing …

We determine what information about failures is necessary and sufficient to solve
Consensus in asynchronous distributed systems subject to crash failures. In Chandra and …

The ISIS toolkit is a distributed programming environment based on virtually synchronous
process groups and group communication We present a new family of protocols in support …

The design and verification of fault-tolerant distributed applications is widely viewed as a
complex endeavor. To a large extent this is due to the fact that the communication primitives …

Replication handled by software on off-the-shelf hardware costs less than using specialized
hardware. Although an intuitive concept, replication requires sophisticated techniques for …

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for network file system design, serverless
network, file systems. While traditional netwc~ rk file systems rely on a central server …