Distributed Systems Engineering, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, March 1997

• Geoff Coulson, Jan de Meer:
  Guest Editors' introduction - Special Issue on Quality of Service. 1-2
  
• Edward W. Knightly, Paola Rossaro:
  On the effects of smoothing for deterministic QoS. 3-15
  
• Gregor von Bochmann, Abdelhakim Hafid:
  Some principles for quality of service management. 16-27
  
• Leonard J. N. Franken, Boudewijn R. Haverkort:
  Quality of service management using generic modelling and monitoring techniques. 28-37
  
• Michael Fry, Aruna Seneviratne, Andreas Vogel, Varuni Witana:
  QoS management in a World Wide Web environment which supports continuous media. 38-47
  
• Andrew T. Campbell, Geoff Coulson:
  A QoS adaptive multimedia transport system: design, implementation and experiences. 48-
  

Volume 4, Number 2, June 1997

• M. L. Liu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  The performance of replica control protocols in the presence of site failures. 59-77
  
• Brian E. Carpenter, Jon Crowcroft:
  Prospects for Internet technology. 78-86
  
• Jongsung Kim, Cheeha Kim:
  A total ordering protocol using a dynamic token-passing scheme. 87-95
  
• Masoud Mansouri-Samani, Morris Sloman:
  GEM: a generalized event monitoring language for distributed systems. 96-108
  
• Flaviu Cristian, Shivakant Mishra, Guillermo A. Alvarez:
  High-performance asynchronous atomic broadcast. 109-
  

Volume 4, Number 3, September 1997

• Rachid Guerraoui, Steve Vinoski:
  Guest Editors' introduction. 129-129
  
• Sakari Rahkila, Susanne Stenberg:
  Experiences on integration of network management and a distributed computing platform. 130-138
  
• Priya Narasimhan, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith:
  Replica consistency of CORBA objects in partitionable distributed systems. 139-150
  
• Jian Liang, Simone Sédillot, Bruno Traverson:
  Object Management Group object transaction service based on an X/Open and International Organization for Standardization open systems interconnection transaction processing kernel . 151-159
  
• Daniel Scherer, Tobias Murer, Andy Würtz:
  Designing the distributed architecture DIPS for cooperative software engineering. 160-168
  
• Rod Fatoohi:
  Performance evaluation of communication software systems for distributed computing. 169-
  

Volume 4, Number 4, December 1997

• Wayne Brookes, Stephen Crawley, Jadwiga Indulska, Douglas Kosovic, Andreas Vogel:
  Types and their management in open distributed systems. 177-190
  
• Yen-Min Huang, Chinya V. Ravishankar:
  Secure synthesis and activation of protocol translation agents. 191-202
  
• Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley:
  Catalogue management for a multidatabase system using an X.500 directory system. 203-213
  
• Christophe Logé, Elie Najm, Ken Chen:
  An ODP computational model of a cooperative binding object. 214-228
  
• Xiaomin Chen, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith:
  Totally ordered gigabit multicasting. 229-243
  
• Roberto Baldoni, Silvio Salza:
  Deadlock detection in multidatabase systems: a performance analysis. 244-