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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Probabilistic Failures
We consider the problem of reliable broadcast in a wireless network in which nodes are prone to failure. In the failure mode considered in this paper, each node can fail independe...
Vartika Bhandari, Nitin H. Vaidya
FOCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
On the Quantum Query Complexity of Local Search in Two and Three Dimensions
The quantum query complexity of searching for local optima has been a subject of much interest in the recent literature. For the d-dimensional grid graphs, the complexity has been...
Xiaoming Sun, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
RANDOM
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...
Mike Burmester, Yvo Desmedt, Yongge Wang
STOC
1993
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Constructing small sample spaces satisfying given constraints
Abstract. The subject of this paper is nding small sample spaces for joint distributions of n discrete random variables. Such distributions are often only required to obey a certa...
Daphne Koller, Nimrod Megiddo
FOCS
1991
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A General Approach to Removing Degeneracies
We wish to increase the power of an arbitrary algorithm designed for non-degenerate input, by allowing it to execute on all inputs. We concentrate on in nitesimal symbolic perturba...
Ioannis Z. Emiris, John F. Canny