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Distributed systems (3rd ed.): concepts and design
Coulouris G., Dollimore J., Kindberg T., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 2001. 772 pp. Type: Book (9780201619188)
A distributed system is defined here as one in which components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions only by passing messages. Thus, components run concurrently, there is no global clock, and componen...
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Client-server computing in mobile environments
Jing J., Helal A., Elmagarmid A. ACM Computing Surveys 31(2): 117-157, 1999. Type: Article
This lengthy paper surveys various ways of supporting mobile client/server computing for information access. Mobile computing users carry portable devices designed to access information services regardless of the us...
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Dec 1 1999 |
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IP lookups using multiway and multicolumn search
Lampson B., Srinivasan V., Varghese G. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 7(3): 324-334, 1999. Type: Article
IP address lookup in Internet routers is a critical task for the future, with routing table sizes increasing and speed requirements becoming ever harder. Given a set S of address prefixes and an IP address D, the IP address lookup prob...
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Oct 1 1999 |
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DHCP: a guide to dynamic TCP/IP network configuration
Kercheval B., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999. 187 pp. Type: Book (9780130997210)
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol underdevelopment by the Internet Engineering TaskForce. The goal of DHCP is to make attaching a newcomputer to the Internet as easy as possible. This book has a narrowscope: ...
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May 1 1999 |
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High-performance client/server
Loosley C., Douglas F., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1998. Type: Book (9780471162698)
Loosley and Douglas provide an extensive introduction to the issue of practical performance management in client/server systems. In particular, questions of performance engineering are discussed thoroughly, and a significant number of ...
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Mar 1 1999 |
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A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing
Floyd S., Jacobson V., Liu C., McCanne S., Zhang L. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 5(6): 784-803, 1997. Type: Article
The work reported in this paper starts from the observation that one cannot make a single reliable multicast delivery scheme that optimally meets the functionality, scalability, and efficiency requirements of all applications. It has b...
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Sep 1 1998 |
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Analysis of backoff protocols for multiple access channels
Håstad J., Leighton T., Rogoff B. SIAM Journal on Computing 25(4): 740-774, 1996. Type: Article
Backoff protocols for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) channels, such as Ethernet, are analyzed. The analysis is based on stochastic models of access protocols. An access protocol is stable if the averag...
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Jun 1 1998 |
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IPv6--the new Internet protocol (2nd ed.)
Huitema C., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998. Type: Book (9780138505059)
IPv6 is the new Internet protocol being specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force. This book contains an interesting history of the design of IPv6, including the background and the rationale for major design decisions. One reads...
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Apr 1 1998 |
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TCP/IP explained
Miller P., Digital Equipment Corp., Acton, MA, 1997. Type: Book (9781555581664)
Many books discuss the TCP/IP protocol suite, which is used in the Internet. This one can be broadly divided into four sections. The first deals with the basics of the TCP/IP protocol suite and how data is transported between two syste...
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Nov 1 1997 |
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On parallelizing and optimizing the implementation of communication protocols
Leue S., Oechslin P. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 4(1): 55-70, 1996. Type: Article
The authors look at the following problem: Given the specification of a protocol stack, how can a parallelized optimized implementation be automatically derived? The proposed method is based on formal specification of the protocol stac...
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Mar 1 1997 |
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