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CORR
2006
Springer
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Pseudorandomness and Combinatorial Constructions
Abstract. In combinatorics, the probabilistic method is a very powerful tool to prove the existence of combinatorial objects with interesting and useful properties. Explicit constr...
Luca Trevisan
PE
2008
Springer
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Rate-optimal schemes for Peer-to-Peer live streaming
In this paper we consider the problem of sending data in real time from information sources to sets of receivers, using peer-to-peer communications. We consider several models of ...
Laurent Massoulié, Andrew Twigg
TON
2008
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On static and dynamic partitioning behavior of large-scale P2P networks
Abstract--In this paper, we analyze the problem of network disconnection in the context of large-scale P2P networks and understand how both static and dynamic patterns of node fail...
Derek Leonard, Zhongmei Yao, Xiaoming Wang, Dmitri...
TSP
2008
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Convergence Analysis of Reweighted Sum-Product Algorithms
Markov random fields are designed to represent structured dependencies among large collections of random variables, and are well-suited to capture the structure of real-world sign...
Tanya Roosta, Martin J. Wainwright, Shankar S. Sas...
QUESTA
2007
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Estimating tail probabilities of heavy tailed distributions with asymptotically zero relative error
Efficient estimation of tail probabilities involving heavy tailed random variables is amongst the most challenging problems in Monte-Carlo simulation. In the last few years, appli...
Sandeep Juneja