The Quorum Deployment Problem ( Extended

The Quorum Deployment Problem ( Extended Abstra t )

The Quorum Deployment Problem

Quorum systems are commonly used to maintain the consistency of replicated data in a distributed system. Much research has been devoted to developing quorum systems with good theoretical properties, such as fault tolerance and high availability. However, even given a theoretically good quorum system, it is not obvious how to efficiently deploy such a system in a real network. This paper introdu...

Application of quality function deployment (QFD) to improve product design: The school furniture case

Today Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a powerful development method whit a wide range of applications to translate customers’ needs into technical requirements for achieving customer satisfaction. The current study demonstrated a QFD analysis to improve school furniture design in Tehran as the baseline of Iran. Accordingly, we extended the widely used QFD method into a complex set of custo...

An Improved Quorum-Based Algorithm for Extended GME Problem in Distributed Systems

The extended GME (group mutual exclusion) problem is a natural extension of the GME problem. In extended GME problem, processes are allowed to request more than one resource at a time, in order that the processes that can proceed by having access to any one of the requested resource can be allowed to do so. Manabe-Park suggested a quorum based solution for the extended GME problem. However, the...

Load Balancing and Almost Symmetries for RAMBO Quorum Hosting

Rambo is the Reconfigurable Atomic Memory for Basic Objects, a formally specified algorithm that implements atomic read/write shared memory in dynamic networks, where the participating hosts may join, leave, or fail. Rambo is particularly suited for volatile environments such as mobile networks. To maintain availability and consistency in such dynamic settings, Rambo replicates objects and uses...