19. ICDCS 1999: Austin, TX, USA

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 31 May - 4 June, 1999, Austin, TX, USA. IEEE Computer Society, 1999

Broadcast and Multicast

Scott Johnson, Farnam Jahanian, Jigney Shah:
The Inter-group Router Approach to Scalable Group Composition. 4-14
Prashanth B. Bhat, Cauligi S. Raghavendra, Viktor K. Prasanna:
Efficient Collective Communication in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems. 15-24
Hung-Ying Tyan, Chao-Ju Hou, Bin Wang:
On Providing Quality-of-Service Control for Core-Based Multicast Routing. 25-33

Fault-Tolerance

Michael H. Kalantar, Kenneth P. Birman:
Causally Ordered Multicast: the Conservative Approach. 36-44
John C. Ramirez, Rami G. Melhem:
Reducing Message Overhead in TMR Systems. 45-54
Islene C. Garcia, Luiz Eduardo Buzato:
Progressive Construction of Consistent Global Checkpoints. 55-62

Operating Systems

Masahiko Takahashi, Kenji Kono, Takashi Masuda:
Efficient Kernel Support of Fine-Grained Protection Domains for Mobile Code. 64-73
John H. Hartman, Ian Murdock, Tammo Spalink:
The Swarm Scalable Storage System. 74-81
Radu Litiu, Atul Prakash:
Stateful Group Communication Services. 82-89

Replication and Adaptation

Mesaac Makpangou, Guillaume Pierre, Christian Khoury, Neilze Dorta:
Replicated Directory Service for Weakly Consistent Distributed Caches. 92-100
Michael Rabinovich, Irina Rabinovich, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Amit Aggarwal:
A Dynamic Object Replication and Migration Protocol for an Internet Hosting Service. 101-113
Mark Bearden:
Using Hysteresis to Reduce Adaptation Cost of a Dynamic Quorom Assignment. 114-124

Network Protocols

Jiawen Su, Daniel W. Manchala:
Trust vs. Threats: Recovery and Survival in Electronic Commerce. 126-133
Jie Li, Hisao Kameda, Keqin Li:
Optimal Dynamic Location Update for PCS Networks. 134-141
Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta:
Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing. 142-149

Monitoring and Measuring

Joseph L. Hellerstein, Mark M. Maccabee, W. Nathaniel Mills III, John Turek:
ETE: A Customizable Approach to Measuring End-to-End Response Times and Their Components in Distributed Systems. 152-162
Beth Plale, Karsten Schwan:
Run-time Detection in Parallel and Distributed Systems: Application to Safety-Critical Systems. 163-170
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Maly:
HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management. 171-178

Mobile Systems

Dag Johansen, Keith Marzullo, Fred B. Schneider, Kjetil Jacobsen, Dmitrii Zagorodnov:
NAP: Practical Fault-Tolerance for Itinerant Computations. 180-189
Anand R. Tripathi, Neeran M. Karnik, Manish K. Vora, Tanvir Ahmed, Ram D. Singh:
Mobile Agent Programming in Ajanta. 190-197
Masahiro Mochizuki, Hideyuki Tokuda:
Possession System: Middleware for Adaptive Multiuser Applications in a Mobile Environment. 198-205

Synchronization

Jean Mayo, Phil Kearns:
Distributed Deadlock Detection and Resolution Based on Hardware Clocks. 208-215
Yoshifumi Manabe, Naka Tajima:
(h-k)-Arbiter for h-out of-k Mutual Exclusion Problem. 216-223
Ting-Lu Huang:
Fast and Fair Mutual Exclusion for Shared Memory Systems. 224-231

Multimedia Systems

Scott Thibault, Jerôme Marant, Gilles Muller:
Adapting Distributed Applications Using Extensible Networks. 234-243
Tal Anker, Danny Dolev, Idit Keidar:
Fault Tolerant Video on Demand Services. 244-252
Reinhard Lüling:
Static and Dynamic Mapping of Media Assets on a Network of Distributed Multimedia Information Servers. 253-260

Web Caching

Guruduth Banavar, Tushar Deepak Chandra, Bodhi Mukherjee, Jay Nagarajarao, Robert E. Strom, Daniel C. Sturman:
An Efficient Multicast Protocol for Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Systems. 262-272
Renu Tewari, Michael Dahlin, Harrick M. Vin, Jonathan S. Kay:
Design Considerations for Distributed Caching on the Internet. 273-284
Michael Dahlin:
Interpreting Stale Load Information. 285-296

Realtime Systems

Vinay Kanitkar, Alex Delis:
Site Selection for Real-Time Client Request Handling. 298-305
Aleksandar M. Bakic, Matt W. Mutka:
A Compiler-Based Approach to Design and Engineering of Complex Real-Time Systems. 306-313
Philip K. McKinley, Robel R. Barrios, Aaron M. Malenfant:
Design and Performance Evaluation of a Java-Based Multicast Browser Tool. 314-322

Distributed Shared Memory

Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher:
Active Correlation Tracking. 324-331
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig E. Wills:
Proxy Cache Coherency and Replacement - Towards a More Complete Picture. 332-339
John G. Turk, Brett D. Fleisch:
DBRpc: A Highly Adaptable Protocol for Reliable DSM Systems. 340-348

Scheduling

Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Songrit Maneewongvatana:
Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids. 352-359
Jan Jonsson:
Effective Complexity Reduction for Optimal Scheduling of Distributed Real-Time Applications. 360-369
Henrik Lonn:
Initial Synchronization of TDMA Communication in Distributed Real-Time Systems. 370-379

Application Support

Peter J. Keleher, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Dejan Perkovic:
Exposing Application Alternatives. 384-392
Joshua S. Auerbach, Charles Barton, Mark Chu-Carroll, Mukund Raghavachari:
Mockingbird: Flexible Stub Compilation from Pairs of Declarations. 393-402
Ophir Holder, Israel Ben-Shaul, Hovav Gazit:
System Support for Dynamic Layout of Distributed Applications. 403-411

Database Systems

Peng Liu, Paul Ammann, Sushil Jajodia:
Incorporating Transaction Semantics to Reduce Reprocessing Overhead in Replicated Mobile Data Applications. 414-423
Bettina Kemme, Fernando Pedone, Gustavo Alonso, André Schiper:
Processing Transactions over Optimistic Atomic Broadcast Protocols. 424-431
Evaggelia Pitoura, Panos K. Chrysanthis:
Scalable Processing of Read-Only Transactions in Broadcast Push. 432-439

Distributed Objects

Henry Detmold, Michael Hollfelder, Michael Oudshoorn:
Ambassadors: Structured Object Mobility in Worldwide Distributed Systems. 442-449
Claus Hagen, Gustavo Alonso:
Beyond the Black Box: Event-based Inter-Process Communication in Process Support Systems. 450-457
Cristian Francu, Ivan Marsic:
An Advanced Communication Toolkit for Implementing the Broker Pattern. 458-467

Distributed Algorithms

Eddy Fromentin, Michel Raynal, Frederic Tronel:
On Classes of Problems in Asynchronous Distributed Systems with Process Crashes. 470-477
Augusto Ciuffoletti:
Uniform Timing of Multi-cast Service. 478-486
Colette Johnen, Luc Onana Alima, Ajoy Kumar Datta, Sébastien Tixeuil:
Self-Stabilizing Neighborhood Synchronizer in Tree Networks. 487-494

CORBA

John A. Zinky, Linsey O'Brien, David E. Bakken, Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy, Mustaque Ahamad:
PASS - A service for Efficient Large Scale Dissemination of Time Varying Data Using CORBA. 496-506
Priya Narasimhan, Kim Potter Kihlstrom, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith:
Providing Support for Survivable CORBA Applications with the Immune System. 507-516
Gregory Craske, Zahir Tari:
A Property-based Clustering Approach for the CORBA Trading Service. 517-525

Load Balancing

Valeria Cardellini, Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Yu:
Redirection Algorithms for Load Sharing in Distributed Web-server Systems. 528-535
Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu:
Load Balancing and Hot Spot Relief for Hash Routing among a Collection of Proxy Caches. 536-543
Jong-Hong Kim, Se-Woong Eom, Sam H. Noh, Yoo-Hun Won:
Striping and Buffer Caching for Software RAID File Systems in Workstation Clusters. 544-551