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ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Resource Bundles: Using Aggregation for Statistical Wide-Area Resource Discovery and Allocation
Resource discovery is an important process for finding suitable nodes that satisfy application requirements in large loosely-coupled distributed systems. Besides inter-node heter...
Michael Cardosa, Abhishek Chandra
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Circumventing Server Bottlenecks: Indirect Large-Scale P2P Data Collection
In most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, it is necessary to collect vital statistics data — sometimes referred to as logs — from up to millions of peers. Tradition...
Di Niu, Baochun Li
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Connected Dominating Set Construction in Geometric k-Disk Graphs
In this paper, we study the problem of minimum connected dominating set in geometric k-disk graphs. This research is motivated by the problem of virtual backbone construction in w...
Kai Xing, Wei Cheng, E. K. Park, Shmuel Rotenstrei...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Routing of XML and XPath Queries in Data Dissemination Networks
XML-based data dissemination networks are rapidly gaining momentum. In these networks XML content is routed from data producers to data consumers throughout an overlay network of ...
Guoli Li, Shuang Hou, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Connectivity-Guaranteed and Obstacle-Adaptive Deployment Schemes for Mobile Sensor Networks
Mobile sensors can move and self-deploy into a network. While focusing on the problems of coverage, existing deployment schemes mostly over-simplify the conditions for network con...
Guang Tan, Stephen A. Jarvis, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hotness-Aware Sensor Networks
In a realistic sensor network, in particular with a nonuniform deployment, sensor nodes inevitably have varying workloads. This causes a natural problem that some sensor nodes are...
Dong Li, Yanmin Zhu, Li Cui, Lionel M. Ni
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Weak vs. Self vs. Probabilistic Stabilization
Self-stabilization is a strong property which guarantees that a network always resume a correct behavior starting from an arbitrary initial state. Weaker guarantees have later bee...
Stéphane Devismes, Sébastien Tixeuil...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Fair K Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Peer to Peer Systems
k-mutual exclusion is an important problem for resourceintensive peer-to-peer applications ranging from aggregation to file downloads. In order to be practically useful, k-mutual...
Vijay Anand Reddy, Prateek Mittal, Indranil Gupta
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...
Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Fabián E. Bus...