Next generation Web 2.0 communities and distributed P2P systems rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations spread across numerous administrative and security domains. Zero...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Kevin C. Almeroth, Ben Y. Zha...
The role of brokers in client-server systems is to accommodate flexible, open, heterogeneous system design and to facilitate fault tolerance and improved performance through load...
Omotunde Adebayo, John E. Neilson, Dorina C. Petri...
A systematic understanding of the decomposability structures in network utility maximization is key to both resource allocation and functionality allocation. It helps us obtain the...
In recent years there has been an increasing demand to build ”soft” real-time applications on top of asynchronous distributed systems. Designing and implementing such applicat...
—In this paper, we design several degree distributions for rateless codes with optimum intermediate packet recovery rates. In rateless coding, the employed degree distribution si...