A challenging issue in today's server systems is to transparently deal with failures and application-imposed requirements for continuous operation. In this paper we address t...
—In 3G wireless technologies, competitive operators are assigned a fixed part of the spectrum from long-term auctions. This is known to lead to utilization inefficiencies becau...
—It has been observed in recent years that in many applications service time demands are highly variable. Without foreknowledge of exact service times of individual jobs, process...
Steve Thompson, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Feng...
We are interested in domains where an agent repeatedly negotiates with other agents over shared resources where the demand or utility to the agent for the shared resources vary ov...
The quality of information is crucial for decision making in many mission-critical applications such as battlefield operations and intelligence analysis. However, as the system b...
Bin Yu, Srikanth Kallurkar, Ganesh Vaidyanathan, D...