Principles of Distributed Systems 9th International Conference, OPOD

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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James H. Anderson Giuseppe Prencipe Roger Wattenhofer (Eds.)

Principles of Distributed Systems 9th International Conference, OPODIS 2005 Pisa, Italy, December 12-14, 2005 Revised Selected Papers

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Volume Editors James H. Anderson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science Chapel Hill, USA E-mail: [email protected] Giuseppe Prencipe Università di Pisa Dipartimento di Informatica Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56100 Pisa, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Roger Wattenhofer ETH Zurich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory 8092 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006938989 CR Subject Classification (1998): C.2.4, D.1.3, D.2.7, D.2.12, D.4.7, C.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The 9th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2005) was held during December 12–14, 2005 in Pisa, Italy. It continued a tradition of successful conferences with friendly and pleasant atmospheres. Previous OPODIS conferences were held in Chantilly (1997), Amiens (1998), Hanoi (1999), Paris (2000), Mexico (2001), Reims (2002), La Martinique (2003), and Gr