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Kyle, John
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
Farmington, Michigan
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Data communications (2nd ed.)
Beyda W., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995. Type: Book (9780133669237)
Communications technology has advanced significantly in recent years, leaving a newcomer with a lot to learn. It has also consumed a large and growing portion of corporate and research computing budgets. With the advent of the World Wi...
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Oct 1 1996 |
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Totem: a fault-tolerant multicast group communication system
Moser L., Melliar-Smith P., Agarwal D., Budhia R., Lingley-Papadopoulos C. Communications of the ACM 39(4): 54-63, 1996. Type: Article
Totem is a group communication system for distributed applications with both fault tolerance and real-time requirements. The Totem system is based on a three-layer architecture with a logical token ring scheme to provide multicast serv...
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Sep 1 1996 |
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Network monitoring explained: design and application
Chiu D., Sudama R., Ellis Horwood, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780136147107)
Network monitoring is a fundamental technology for network management. Without correct, timely statistics, today’s network management and control tools are nearly useless. This book describes how monitoring can be used to imp...
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Jun 1 1993 |
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The Many Faces of Consensus in Distributed Systems
Turek J., Shasha D. Computer 25(6): 8-17, 1992. Type: Article
The consensus problem arises when a set of independent agents (such as distributed agents) must agree on a decision based on their initial states. This problem is at the heart of distributed and fault-tolerant computing. The authors su...
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Jun 1 1993 |
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On the Assignment Problem of Arbitrary Process Systems to Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems
Bowen N., Nikolaou C., Ghafoor A. IEEE Transactions on Computers 41(3): 257-273, 1992. Type: Article
The issue of maximizing overall throughput of a distributed system by attempting to reduce interprocess communication and fully utilize individual processors is addressed. The authors introduce a two-step method that first clusters tig...
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Apr 1 1993 |
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Parallel programming
Coffin M., Silicon Press, Summit, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780929306131)
Rather than being an introduction to parallel programming, this book is an introduction to a new programming language called Par. It is also an introduction to a new style of programming with annotations. Coffin assumes his readers hav...
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Apr 1 1993 |
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On nonblocking multirate interconnection networks
Chung S., Ross K. SIAM Journal on Computing 20(4): 726-736, 1991. Type: Article
Chung and Ross expand on work recently published by Melen and Turner [1], in which necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a multirate single-path interconnection network model to be strictly nonblocking a...
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Oct 1 1992 |
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Data and computer communications (3rd ed.)
Stallings W., Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 1991. Type: Book (9780024154545)
This comprehensive overview of data communications concepts covers nearly every topic that one would encounter when starting out in the field. It would be suitable for an in-depth course in data communications. The exercises range from...
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Jun 1 1992 |
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ISDN explained: worldwide network and applications technology
Griffths J., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1990. Type: Book (9789780471926757)
No matter how you feel about ISDN, some companies have it and some telephone customers are moving to it. This book is not a manual on how to implement an ISDN, nor is it a detailed description of the lowest level ISDN functionality. In...
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Sep 1 1991 |
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Data communications: a beginner’s guide to concepts and technology
Helmers S., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989. Type: Book (9789780131988705)
The preface recommends this book as “a primer that can easily be read from front to back” and as “a reference book that can be used to answer questions long after it has been placed on a bookshelf.R...
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Oct 1 1990 |
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