LCS Publications: Recent submissions
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Revisiting the Paxos Algorithm
(1997-06)The Paxos algorithm is an efficient and highly fault-tolerant algorithm, devised by Lamport, for reaching consensus in a distributed system. Although it appears to be practical, it seems to be not widely known or understood. ... -
Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web
(1997-06)We describe a family of caching protocols for distributed networks that can be used to decrease or eliminate the occurrence of hot spots in the network. Hot spots are web sites that swamped by a large number of requests ...
