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DPD
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Light-Weight Currency Management Mechanisms in Mobile and Weakly-Connected Environments
This paper discusses the currency management mechanisms used in Deno, a replicated object storage system designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. Deno primari...
Ugur Çetintemel, Peter J. Keleher
TON
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Robust rate control for integrated services packet networks
Abstract--Research on congestion-control algorithms has traditionally focused more on performance than on robustness of the closed-loop system to changes in network conditions. As ...
Franco Blanchini, Renato Lo Cigno, Roberto Tempo
CDC
2010
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Q-learning and enhanced policy iteration in discounted dynamic programming
We consider the classical finite-state discounted Markovian decision problem, and we introduce a new policy iteration-like algorithm for finding the optimal state costs or Q-facto...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Huizhen Yu
CDC
2010
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Semi-autonomous networks: Network resilience and adaptive trees
This paper examines the dynamics of a networked multi-agent system operating with a consensus-type coordination algorithm that can be influenced by external agents. We refer to thi...
Airlie Chapman, Mehran Mesbahi
ICDCN
2012
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann