This paper demonstrates the significant gains that multi-access users can achieve from sharing a single amplify-forward relay in slow fading environments. The proposed protocol, ...
The distributed nature of peer-to-peer networks offers a solid ground for the deployment of environments where multiple agents, managing several resources, can cooperate in pursuin...
Checkpointing is a commonly used approach to provide system fault-tolerance. However, using a constant checkpointing frequency may compromise the system's overall performance ...
The dynamics and throughput of a bucket brigade production system is studied when workersÕ speeds increase due to learning. It is shown that, if the rules of the bucket brigade s...
The problem of group ranking, a.k.a. rank aggregation, has been studied in contexts varying from sports, to multi-criteria decision making, to machine learning, to ranking web pag...