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CCS
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
PPay: micropayments for peer-to-peer systems
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...
Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
TSP
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Geographic Gossip: Efficient Averaging for Sensor Networks
Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are attractive due to their simplicity, distributed nature, and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, using standa...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Anand D. Sarwate, Martin J....
CPAIOR
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services
Abstract. Replication is a fundamental technique for increasing throughput and achieving fault tolerance in distributed data services. However, its implementation may induce signif...
Laurent Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Elaine L....
HPDC
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications
Development of portable network-aware applications demands an interface to the network that allows an application to obtain information about its execution environment. This paper...
Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Dean Sutherland, Tho...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
On the importance of bandwidth control mechanisms for scheduling on large scale heterogeneous platforms
We study three scheduling problems (file redistribution, independent tasks scheduling and broadcasting) on large scale heterogeneous platforms under the Bounded Multi-port Model. I...
Olivier Beaumont, Hejer Rejeb