A Distributed User Information System

Abstract

Current user information database technology within the DARPA/NSF internet is adequate to deal with hundreds of hosts and a few thousand users. However, recent size estimates of the Internet indicate that its host population is now closer to one hundred thousand machines, and that its user population numbers around one million users. The current centralized technology cannot scale to accommodate such a large information base, and provides no facilities for the distribution or replication of information. This paper presents the design of a distributed, scaleable user information database. Keywords: Computer networks; Distributed data processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA225362

Entities

People

  • Leo Mark
  • Scott Carson
  • Steven D. Miller

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Digital Communications
  • Distributed Data Processing
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Multithreading
  • Relational Databases
  • Standards
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Database Systems and Applications