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Derandomizing the Ahlswede-Winter matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators, and applications
: Ahlswede and Winter [IEEE Trans. Inf. Th. 2002] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound ...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
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RaWMS - Random Walk Based Lightweight Membership Service for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
RaWMS is a novel lightweight random membership service for ad hoc networks. The service provides each node with a partial uniformly chosen view of network nodes. Such a membership...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Roy Friedman, Gabriel Kliot
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Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many...
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C...
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Rethink the sync
We introduce external synchrony, a new model for local file I/O that provides the reliability and simplicity of synchronous I/O, yet also closely approximates the performance of a...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Pete...
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Performance Evaluation of the Orca Shared-Object System
Orca is a portable, object-based distributed shared memory system. This paper studies and evaluates the design choices made in the Orca system and compares Orca with other DSMs. T...
Henri E. Bal, Raoul Bhoedjang, Rutger F. H. Hofman...