Horus: A Flexible Group Communication System

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 76-83

  Van Renesse, Robbert ^a   Birman, Kenneth P ^a   Maffeis, Silvano ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNICATION LATENCY; FLEXIBLE GROUP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; HORUS SYSTEM; VIRTUAL SYNCHRONY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); UNIX;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030130161     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227210.227229     Document Type: Article

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