The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enabling a cluster of computers
to appear as a single computer to host computers outside the cluster. A host computer …

A new operating system kernel, called the x-kernel, provides an explicit architecture for
constructing and composing network protocols. Experiments in implementing and evaluating …

One of the main challenges in networking today is speeding up the rate of data
transmissions, an issue of increasing importance as the dependence on computer …

The Amoeba project is a research effort aimed at understanding how to connect multiple
computers in a seamless way [16, 17, 26, 27, 31]. The basic idea is to provide the users with …

Wc have built a high-speed local-area network called Nectar that uses programmable
communication processors as host interfaces. In contrast to most protocol engines, our …

Replicating important services on multiple processors in a distributed architecture is a
common technique for constructing dependable computing systems. The authors describe a …

Orca is a portable, object-based distributed shared memory (DSM) system. This article
studies and evaluates the design choices made in the Orca system and compares Orca with …

A method and apparatus for managing a heterogeneous network is disclosed. A first
computer system has one or more identities. A management Service on a Second com puter …

In RFID literature, most “privacy-preserving” protocols require the reader to search all tags in
the system in order to identify a single tag. In another class of protocols, the search …

As the price of CPU chips continues to fall rapidly, it will soon be economically feasible to
build computer systems containing a large number of processors. The question of how this …