Data replication is an increasingly important topic as databases are more and more
deployed over clusters of workstations. One of the challenges in database replication is to …

Information dissemination is a powerful mechanism for finding information in wide-area
environments. An information dissemination server accepts long-term user queries, collects …

Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems organizes and surveys the spectrum of
replication protocols and systems that achieve high availability by replicating entities in …

Data replication is playing an increasingly important role in the design of parallel information
systems. In particular, the widespread use of cluster architectures often requires to replicate …

Replicated services accessed via quorurmcnable each access to be performed at only a
subset (quorum) of the servers, and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any …

A quorum sgstem is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum
systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including …

The problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems has attracted considerable attention
over the last two decades. The mutual exclusion problem requires that, at a time, only one of …

The performance of a mutual exclusion algorithm is measured by the number of messages
exchanged per critical section execution and the delay between successive executions of …

This thesis is centered around the topic database replication. The work has been moti¬
vated by advances in the development of cluster databases and their specific demands in …

Dynamic voting is considered a promising technique for achieving high availability in
distributed systems with data replication. To date, stochastic analysis of dynamic voting …