A reliable multicast protocol for distributed mobile systems: Design and evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1009-1022

  Anastasi, Giuseppe ^a   Bartoli, Alberto ^b   Spadoni, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Causal ordering; Dynamic membership; Mobile computing; Reliable multicast; Total ordering

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ORDERING; COMMUNICATION PRIMITIVES; DISTRIBUTED MOBILE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GROUP MEMBERS; HAND OFF; MOBILE HOST; MULTICASTS; MULTIPLE PROCESS; RELIABLE MULTICAST; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL COVERAGE; TOTAL ORDERING; WIRED NETWORKS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

DATA STRUCTURES; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTICASTING;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 0001411562     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.963414     Document Type: Article

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