A dependable distributed auction system: Architecture and an implementation framework

Proceedings - 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 3-10

  Ezhilchelvan, P ^a   Morgan, G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auctions; distributed servers; membership service; multicast groups; passive replication; reliable multicast; synchronous and asynchronous networks

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMMERCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SCALABILITY;

ASYNCHRONOUS NETWORKS; AUCTIONS; DISTRIBUTED SERVERS; MEMBERSHIP SERVICE; MULTICAST GROUPS; PASSIVE REPLICATION; RELIABLE MULTICAST;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84964078915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISADS.2001.917389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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