4 papers
A case for location based contact tracing
Atul Pokharel, Robert Soulé, Avi Silberschatz
We present an evaluation of the effectiveness of manual contact tracing compared to bulletin board contact tracing. We show that bulletin board contact tracing gives comparable res…
Partitioned Paxos via the Network Data Plane
Huynh Tu Dang, Pietro Bressana, Han Wang +6
Consensus protocols are the foundation for building fault-tolerant, distributed systems, and services. They are also widely acknowledged as performance bottlenecks. Several recent…
NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination (Extended Version)
Xin Jin, Xiaozhou Li, Haoyu Zhang +5
Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major…
Network Hardware-Accelerated Consensus
Huynh Tu Dang, Pietro Bressana, Han Wang +5
Consensus protocols are the foundation for building many fault-tolerant distributed systems and services. This paper posits that there are significant performance benefits to be ga…