A Review of Experiences with Reliable Multicast

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 741-774

  Birman, Kenneth P ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Component programming; Distributed computing; Enterprise integration architectures; Group communication; Network computing; Object orientation; Reliable multicast

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000539625     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19990725)29:9<741::AID-SPE259>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Review

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