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PODC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Brief announcement: new bounds for the controller problem
The (M, W)-controller, originally studied by Afek, Awerbuch, Plotkin, and Saks, is a basic distributed tool that an abstraction for managing the consumption of a global resource i...
Yuval Emek, Amos Korman
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Brief announcement: collaborative measurement of upload speeds in P2P systems
We define and study the bandwidth determination problem in adhoc P2P environments. Using point-to-point bandwidth probes, the goal is to quickly determine each host's upload ...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Brief announcement: minimum spanning trees and cone-based topology control
Consider a setting where nodes can vary their transmission power thereby changing the network topology, the goal of topology control is to reduce the transmission power while ensu...
Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy A. Lynch
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Brief announcement: global consistency can be easier than point-to-point communication
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...