This paper studies the important fault management issue with focus on the fast restoration mechanisms for Optical Burst Switched (OBS) networks. In order to reduce the burst losse...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of a large collection of small nodes providing collaborative and distributed sensing ability in unpredictable environments. Given their unat...
Abstract. As a developing P2P system, Gnutella has upgraded its protocol to 0.6, which significantly changed the characteristics of its hosts. However, few previous work has given ...
In this paper, we consider competition between sellers offering similar items in concurrent online auctions, where each seller must set its individual auction parameters (such as ...
Enrico H. Gerding, Alex Rogers, Rajdeep K. Dash, N...
This paper develops a new combinatorial auction protocol called the Groves Mechanism with SubModular Approximation (GM-SMA). This protocol satisfies the following characteristics:...