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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...