: Data filtering is an important approach to reduce energy consumption. Following this idea, Interest is used as a constraint to filter uninterested data in sensor networks. Within...
We explore the performance of an M/GI/1 queue under various scheduling policies from the perspective of a new metric: the it slowdown experienced by largest jobs. We consider sche...
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...