<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francisco Maia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miguel Matos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Etienne Rivière</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rui Oliveira</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Slicing as a distributed systems primitive</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 6th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/rco/files/slicing_primitive.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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