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P2P
2008
IEEE
124views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
A Bandwidth-Aware Scheduling Strategy for P2P-TV Systems
P2P-TV systems distribute live streaming contents by organizing the information flow in small chunks that are exchanged among peers. Different strategies can be implemented at th...
Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Emilio Leonardi, Marco M...
CORR
2011
Springer
189views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Metastability of Logit Dynamics for Coordination Games
Logit Dynamics [Blume, Games and Economic Behavior, 1993] is a randomized best response dynamics for strategic games: at every time step a player is selected uniformly at random a...
Vincenzo Auletta, Diodato Ferraioli, Francesco Pas...
SENSYS
2004
ACM
16 years 15 days ago
Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
Nisheeth Shrivastava, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divya...
STOC
2005
ACM
156views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
16 years 7 months ago
Convex programming for scheduling unrelated parallel machines
We consider the classical problem of scheduling parallel unrelated machines. Each job is to be processed by exactly one machine. Processing job j on machine i requires time pij . ...
Yossi Azar, Amir Epstein
FOCS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda