When and how to change quorums on wide area networks

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 12-21

  Merideth, Michael G ^a   Oprea, Florian ^a   Reiter, Michael K ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access strategy; Dynamic workload; Quorum system; Wide area network

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FLASH CROWD; GLOBAL STRATEGIES; QUORUM SYSTEM; QUORUM SYSTEMS; WIDE AREA;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 74949102494     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDS.2009.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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