@conference {mmr+13,
	title = {Slicing as a distributed systems primitive},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC)},
	year = {2013},
	month = {April},
	address = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
	abstract = {<p>Large-scale distributed systems appear as the major in- frastructures for supporting planet-scale services. These systems call for appropriate management mechanisms and protocols. Slicing is an example of an autonomous, fully decentral- ized protocol suitable for large-scale environments. It aims at organizing the system into groups of nodes, called slices, according to an application-specific criteria where the size of each slice is relative to the size of the full system. This al- lows assigning a certain fraction of nodes to different task, according to their capabilities. Although useful, current slicing techniques lack some features of considerable practical importance. This pa- per proposes a slicing protocol, that builds on existing so- lutions, and addresses some of their frailties. We present novel solutions to deal with non-uniform slices and to per- form online and dynamic slices schema reconfiguration. Moreover, we describe how to provision a slice-local Peer Sampling Service for upper protocol layers and how to en- hance slicing protocols with the capability of slicing over more than one attribute. Slicing is presented as a complete, dependable and inte- grated distributed systems primitive for large-scale systems.</p>
},
	attachments = {https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/rco/files/slicing_primitive.pdf},
	author = {Francisco Maia and Miguel Matos and Etienne Rivi{\`e}re and Rui Oliveira}
}