Publications:

My latest publications and all the publications connected with my work at the CNDS lab at Hopkins can be found at the center's publications page.

Below is an archive of my older publications on the Transis and Totem projects and some later work not connected with the CNDS lab.

Journals

Optimal Availability Quorum Systems: Theory and Practice. ( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir and Avishai Wool.
Information Processing Letters, 65, pages 223-228, April 1998.

The Totem Single-Ring Ordering and Membership Protocol( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Deborah A. Agarwal and Paul Ciarfella.
ACM Transactions On Computer Systems, 13(4), pages 311-342, November 1995.

Refereed Conferences

Efficient State Transfer in Partitionable Environments. ( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev and Roman Vitenberg.
The European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems (ERSADS97), pages 183-191, Valais, Switzerland, March 1997.

Group Communication as an Infrastructure for Distributed System Management ( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, David Breitgand, Gregory V. Chockler and Danny Dolev.
The International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environment (SDNE), Macau, pages 84-91, June 1996.

Evaluating Quorum Systems over the Internet ( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir and Avishai Wool.
The Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), Sendai, Japan, pages 26-35, June 1996.

Extended Virtual Synchrony( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Louise E. Moser, Yair Amir, P. Michael Melliar-Smith and Deborah A. Agarwal.
The 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IC-DCS), pages 56-65, June 1994.

Fast Message Ordering and Membership Using a Logical Token-passing Ring( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Deborah A. Agarwal, Paul Ciarfella.
The 13th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IC-DCS), pages 551-560, May 1993.

Membership Algoritms for Multicast Communication Groups( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Danny Dolev, Shlomo Kramer and Dalia Malki.
6th Intl. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms proceedings (WDAG), LNCS 647, pages 292-312, November 1992.

Transis: A Communication Sub-System for High Availability( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Danny Dolev, Shlomo Kramer and Dalia Malki.
22nd Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), pages 76-84, July 1992.
A full version of this paper, including preliminary WAN handling, can be found in The Transis Technical report.

Invited Submissions

A Highly Available Application in the Transis Environment( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Ofir Amir, Yair Amir and Danny Dolev.
The Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance Workshop, Le Mont Saint-Michel, France, LNCS 774, pages 125-139, June 1993.

Additional Technical Reports

Robust and Efficient Replication Using Group Communication( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Yair Amir, Danny Dolev, P. Michael Melliar-Smith and Louise E. Moser.
Technical Report CS94-20, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 1994.

The Transis Approach to High Availability Cluster Communication( ps, ps.Z, ps.gz )

Authors: Dalia Malki, Yair Amir, Danny Dolev and Shlomo Kramer.
Technical Report CS94-14, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 1994.

Last modified: 29 October 2005.

:) Yair.