A Dynamic Light-Weight Group Service

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1449-1479

  Rodrigues, Luís ^a   Guo, Katherine ^b   Veríssimo, Paulo ^a   Birman, Kenneth P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Virtual synchrony; scalability; dynamic environment; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346482260     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1645     Document Type: Article

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