Operating system services for wide-area applications
Mohammad Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, John D. Kubiatowicz · 1998
With over 100 million users and 25 million hosts, the Internet has achieved the critical mass necessary to support new classes of wide-area distributed applications, including electronic commerce, news services, multi-player gaming, and interactive multimedia. Unfortunately, robust deployment of such applications is hampered by limited latency, bandwidth, and availability of Internet services deployed at a single centralized site. This dissertation advocates the construction of virtual services able to dynamically migrate and replicate across the wide area. However, such virtual services requires a rethinking of all aspects of distributed services, including naming, persistent storage, remote execution, and security. The hypothesis of this dissertation...