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FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Dispersion of Mass and the Complexity of Randomized Geometric Algorithms
How much can randomness help computation? Motivated by this general question and by volume computation, one of the few instances where randomness provably helps, we analyze a noti...
Luis Rademacher, Santosh Vempala
ISPAN
2005
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
Overlay networks with class
We define a family of Distributed Hash Table systems whose aim is to combine routing efficiency of the randomized networks — i.e. average path length O(log n/ log log n) vs. t...
Giovanni Chiola, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, ...
WIOPT
2005
IEEE
16 years 7 days ago
Optimal Controlled Flooding Search in a Large Wireless Network
In this paper we consider the problem of searching for a node or an object (i.e., piece of data, file, etc.) in a large wireless network. We consider the class of controlled flo...
Nicholas B. Chang, Mingyan Liu
COCOON
2005
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Exploring Simple Grid Polygons
Abstract. We investigate the online exploration problem of a shortsighted mobile robot moving in an unknown cellular room without obstacles. The robot has a very limited sensor; it...
Christian Icking, Thomas Kamphans, Rolf Klein, Elm...
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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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16 years 3 days ago
Mechanism design for online real-time scheduling
For the problem of online real-time scheduling of jobs on a single processor, previous work presents matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio that can be achieved ...
Ryan Porter