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Using Optimistic Atomic Broadcast in Transaction Processing Systems

André Schiper, Matthias Wiesmann, Fernando Pedone

Atomic broadcast primitives are often proposed as a mechanism to allow fault-tolerant cooperation between sites in a distributed system. Unfortunately, the delay incurred before a message can be delivered makes it difficult to implement high performance, s ...

2001

Effective Multicast Programming in Large Scale Distributed Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, Patrick Eugster

Many distributed applications have a strong requirement for efficient dissemination of large amounts of information to widely spread consumers in large networks. These include applications in e-commerce and telecommunication. Publish/subscribe is considere ...

2001

Exactly-Once Transactions

Rachid Guerraoui

A three-tier application is organized as three layers: human users interact with front-end clients (e.g browsers); middle-tier application servers (e.g. Web servers) contain the application's business logic, and perform transactions against back-end databa ...

2000

Replication of CORBA Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, André Schiper, Pascal Felber

Distributed computing is one of the major trends in the computer industry. As systems become more distributed, they also become more complex and have to deal with new kinds of problems, such as partial crashes and link failures. While many middleware archi ...

Springer2000

Using Optimistic Atomic Broadcast in Transaction Processing Systems

André Schiper, Fernando Pedone

1999

Failure Detectors as First Class Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, Xavier Défago

One of the fundamental differences between a centralized system and a distributed one is the notion of partial failures. The ability to efficiently and accurately detect failures is a key element underlying reliable distributed computing. In current distri ...

1999

Developing safe concurrent and distributed applications with an architectural environment

The developing environment presented in the paper is built around an interactive tool that can accompany the software engineer for the whole software development process of concurrent and distributed applications. This environment relies on a concept of ac ...

IEEE Comput. Soc1999

A Survey of Distributed Network and Systems Management Paradigms

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin

Since the mid 1990s, network and systems management has steadily evolved from a centralized paradigm, where all the management processing takes place in a single management station, to distributed paradigms, where management is distributed over a potential ...

1998

Integrating the OSI and the CORBA Architectures for Systems Management

In the ESPRIT II project SysMan, the EPFL was in charge of integrating the OSI and the distributed objects technologies for systems management. We worked on specification translation between IDL and GDMO (in both directions), and in the provision of gatewa ...

1997

Extensible kernels are leading OS researchers astray

Willy Zwaenepoel

We argue that ongoing research in extensible kernels largely fails to address the real challenges facing the OS community. Instead, these efforts have become entangled in trying to solve the safety problems that extensibility itself introduces into OS desi ...

1997