A configurable membership service

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 573-586

  Hiltunen, Matti A ^a,b   Schlichting, Richard D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication protocols; Customization; Distributed systems; Micro protocols; Modularity; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000361091     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.677244     Document Type: Article

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