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From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: Distributed time.
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Date: 25 Jan 91 13:46:46 GMT
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In article <11525@darkstar.ucsc.edu> kim@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (Kim Shearer) writes:
> ....
> Some references you might like to look at :
>
>   Exploiting Replication
>	       K P Birman  T A Joseph
>	       Not sure how to get your hands on it, try Ken Birman 
>	       at Cornell. This is dated June 1 1988
>
>   The use of Efficient Broadcast Protocols in Asynchronous 
>   Distributed Systems
>	       F B Schmuck
>	       PhD Thesis TR 99-928

Copies of these are available from Cornell.  Email to isis@cs.cornell.edu
and include a postal address.  Except for the ISIS manual, all Cornell TR's
are provided without charge.

The Exploiting Replication paper actually appeared in the textbook that
Sape Mullender edited for Addison Wesley: Distributed Systems (ACM Press).

We have a number of other papers on this and related issues; the full list
is available from the isis secretary.  New papers are announced by 
postings to comp.sys.isis and can be copied using anonymous FTP from
our repository (anonymous FTP from cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu, pub directory).
These old papers, however, are only available in hard copy.

If you get interested in systems that enforce casual ordering, you'll
want to read some other papers too:
	Psync (Larry Peterson et. al., Arizona)
	Lazy Replication (Rivka Ladin et. al., MIT/DEC CRL)
	John Hennesey's work on lazy memory (Stanford; hardware)
	Causal Memory (Hutto et. al -- Georgia Tech)
	Fast causal multicast (recent Cornell TR)
	Delta-4 (Esprit multicast architecture)
	ANSA (Esprit Advanced Network Systems Architecture)
I'm probably leaving out some obvious references, but this is a start...