Railroad Leases and Reorganization: II

Leases for Consistency in Large -

This article introduces volume leases as a mechanism for providing server-driven cache consistency for large-scale, geographically distributed networks. Volume leases retain the good performance, fault tolerance, and server scalability of the semantically weaker client-driven protocols that are now used on the web. Volume leases are a variation of object leases, which were originally designed f...

Texas Hunting Leases: Statewide and Regional Summary

The selling of hunting leases by private landowners has been regulated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) since 1925. However, a comprehensive examination of leasing activity and wildlife management practices used by landowners who lease lands for hunting has never been conducted. This study had three objectives: (1) to develop procedures to regularly monitor trends and changes i...

PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases

This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.

Exploring Availability and Usage Guarantees in Resource Allocation Through Leases

The development of cheap computing resources and an efficient networking infrastructure has led to the abundance of large computing clusters. Clusters introduce interesting resource management problems. A significant challenge for a cluster’s resource manager is to dynamically and efficiently allocate resources to competing consumers according to a configurable policy and to provide guarantees ...

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