The main name system: An exercise in centralized computing

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 5-14

  Deegan, Tim ^a   Crowcroft, Jon ^a   Warfield, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; CLIENT INTERFACE; DNS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33847320282     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1096536.1096538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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