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Future Directions in Distributed Computing

Research and Position Papers

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. André Schiper

    1. Faculté Informatique et Communication, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Alex A. Shvartsman

    1. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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  3. Hakim Weatherspoon

    1. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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  4. Ben Y. Zhao

    1. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2584)

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Practical Impact of Group Communication Theory

    • André Schiper
    Pages 1-10

  3. On the Impact of Academic Distributed Systems Research on Industrial Practice

    • Michael D. Schroeder
    Pages 11-13

  4. Using Error-Correcting Codes to Solve Distributed Agreement Problems: A Future Direction in Distributed Computing?

    • Roy Friedman, Achour Mostéfaoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal
    Pages 17-21

  5. Lower Bounds for Asynchronous Consensus

    • Leslie Lamport
    Pages 22-23

  6. Designing Algorithms for Dependent Process Failures

    • Flavio Junqueira, Keith Marzullo
    Pages 24-28

  7. Comparing the Atomic Commitment and Consensus Problems

    • Bernadette Charron-Bost
    Pages 29-34

  8. Open Questions on Consensus Performance inWell-Behaved Runs

    • Idit Keidar, Sergio Rajsbaum
    Pages 35-39

  9. Challenges in Evaluating Distributed Algorithms

    • Idit Keidar
    Pages 40-44

  10. Towards Robust Optimistic Approaches

    • Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Marta Patiño-Martínez
    Pages 45-50

  11. Towards a Practical Approach to Confidential Byzantine Fault Tolerance

    • Jian Yin, Jean-Philippe Martin, Arun Venkataramani, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin
    Pages 51-56

  12. Modeling Complexity in Secure Distributed Computing

    • Christian Cachin
    Pages 57-61

  13. Communication and Data Sharing for Dynamic Distributed Systems

    • Nancy Lynch, Alex Shvartsman
    Pages 62-67

  14. Dissecting Distributed Computations

    • Rachid Guerraoui
    Pages 68-72

  15. Ordering vs Timeliness: Two Facets of Consistency?

    • Mustaque Ahamad, Michel Raynal
    Pages 73-77

  16. WAIF:Web of Asynchronous Information Filters

    • Dag Johansen, Robbert van Renesse, Fred B. Schneider
    Pages 81-86

  17. The Importance of Aggregation

    • Robbert van Renesse
    Pages 87-92

  18. Dynamic Lookup Networks

    • Dahlia Malkhi
    Pages 93-96

  19. The Surprising Power of Epidemic Communication

    • Kenneth P. Birman
    Pages 97-102

  20. Topology-Aware Routing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks

    • Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Y. Charlie Hu, Antony Rowstron
    Pages 103-107
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About this book

Every year we witness acceleration in the availability, deployment, and use of distributed applications. However building increasingly sophisticated applications for extant and emerging networked systems continues to be challenging for several reasons: – Abstract models of computation used in distributed systems research often do not fully capture the limitations and the unpredictable nature of realistic distributed computing platforms; – Fault-tolerance and ef?ciency of computation are dif?cult to combine when the c- puting medium is subject to changes, asynchrony, and failures; – Middleware used for constructing distributed software does not provide services most suitable for sophisticated distributed applications; – Middleware services are speci?ed informally and without precise guarantees of e- ciency, fault-tolerance, scalability, and compositionality; – Speci?cation of distributed deployment of software systems is often left out of the development process; – Finally, there persists an organizational and cultural gap between engineering groups developing systems in a commercial enterprise, and research groups advancing the scienti?c state-of-the-art in academic and industrial settings. The objectives of this book are: (1) to serve as a motivation for de?ning future research programs in distributed computing, (2) to help identify areas where practitioners and engineers on the one hand and scientists and researchers on the other can improve the state of distributed computing through synergistic efforts, and (3) to motivate graduate students interested in entering the exciting research ?eld of distributed computing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculté Informatique et Communication, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    André Schiper

  • Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Alex A. Shvartsman

  • Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Y. Zhao

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