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Colin Fidge • IEEE Software
(1996)
It's difficult to determine event order in distributed systems because of the observability problem. The author discusses this problem and evaluates different strategies for determining arrival order. The author analyzed four time stamping ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/52.542297
Ivan Beschastnikh, Perry Liu, Albert Xing, Patty Wang et al. • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
(2020)
Distributed systems pose unique challenges for software developers. Understanding the system’s communication topology and reasoning about concurrent activities of system hosts can be difficult. The standard approach, analyzing system logs, ...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3375633
Masoud Mansouri-Samani, Morris S. Sloman • IEEE Network
(1993)
It is suggested that a functional model of monitoring in terms of the generation, processing, dissemination, and presentation of information can help determine the facilities needed to design and construct distributed systems. Implementatio...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/65.244791
Nancy Lynch, Michael J. Fischer • Theoretical Computer Science
(1981)
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3975(81)90109-2
Mark A. Paskin, Carlos Guestrin • arXiv (Cornell University)
(2012)
Probabilistic inference problems arise naturally in distributed systems such as sensor networks and teams of mobile robots. Inference algorithms that use message passing are a natural fit for distributed systems, but they must be robust to ...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1207.4174
Doug Terry • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
(1987)
Caching reduces the average cost of retrieving data by amortizing the lookup cost over several references to the data. Problems with maintaining strong cache consistency in a distributed system can be avoided by treating cached information ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1987.232834
Masoud Mansouri-Samani, Morris S. Sloman • Distributed Systems Engineering
(1997)
Event-based monitoring is critical for managing and debugging networks and distributed systems. This paper presents GEM - an interpreted generalized event monitoring language. It allows high-level, abstract events to be specified in terms o...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-1846/4/2/004
Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaashoek, Andrew S. Tanenbaum • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
(1992)
A detailed description is given of the Orca language design and the design choices are discussed. Orca is intended for applications programmers rather than systems programmers. This is reflected in its design goals to provide a simple, easy...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/32.126768
Peter Michael Melliar-Smith, L.E. Moser, Vivek Agrawala • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
(1990)
An innovative approach is presented to the design of fault-tolerant distributed systems that avoids the several rounds of message exchange required by current protocols for consensus agreement. The approach is based on broadcast communicati...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/71.80121
Hongyi Wang, Qingfeng Jing, Rishan Chen, Bingsheng He et al. (2014)
Cloud computing allows users to perform computation in a public cloud with a pricing scheme typically based on incurred resource consumption. While cloud comput-ing is often considered as merely a new application for classic distributed sys...
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Ross Anderson (2001)
The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they sp...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119644682
Yichuan Jiang • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
(2015)
In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this subject, each of which only made a very preliminary review on...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tpds.2015.2407900
Stanislaw Budkowski, Piotr Dembiński • Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
(1987)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-7552(87)90084-5
Arup Abhinna Acharya, B. R. Badrinath (1991)
This paper presents an eflcient protocol to totally order the delivery of broadcast messages in a distributed system with N sites. The protocol exploits a symmetric communication scheme based on finite projective planes and requires N+2a me...
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Byung-Gon Chun, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Hoeteck Wee, Marco Barreno et al. • ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)
(2004)
We analyze replication of resources by server nodes that act selfishly, using a game-theoretic approach. We refer to this as the selfish caching problem. In our model, nodes incur either cost for replicating resources or cost for access to ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1011767.1011771
Parameswaran Ramanathan, Kang Geun Shin, Ricky W. Butler • Computer
(1990)
Existing fault-tolerant clock synchronization algorithms are compared and contrasted. These include the following: software synchronization algorithms, such as convergence-averaging, convergence-nonaveraging, and consistency algorithms, as ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/2.58235
Lik Mui, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Cheewee Ang, Peter Szolovits et al. • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(2002)
For distributed systems at large and e-commerce systems in particular, ratings play an increasingly important role. Ratings confer reputation measures about sources. This paper reports our formalization of the rating process. This paper arg...
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S. Landis, Silvano Maffeis • Theory and Practice of Object Systems
(1997)
New classes of large-scale distributed applications will have to deal with unpredictable communication delays, with partial failures, and with networks that partition. In addition, sophisticated applications such as teleconferencing, video-...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1096-9942(1997)3:1<31::aid-tapo4>3.0.co;2-a
Tom A. Rodden, Gordon S. Blair • Springer eBooks
(1991)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3506-1_4
James R. Wilcox, Doug Woos, Pavel Panchekha, Zachary Tatlock et al. • ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
(2015)
Distributed systems are difficult to implement correctly because they must handle both concurrency and failures: machines may crash at arbitrary points and networks may reorder, drop, or duplicate packets. Further, their behavior is often t...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2737924.2737958