Abstract— A common assumption in the network coding literature is that the users are cooperative and will not pursue their own interests. However, this assumption can be violated...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Jianwei Huang, Vincent W...
Unpredictability in the running time of complete search procedures can often be explained by the phenomenon of "heavy-tailed cost distributions", meaning that at any tim...
SyncProbe improves the end-to-end predictability of distributed systems by providing applications with a real-time estimate of the maximum expected message delay (upper bound on c...
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
This paper provides a technique, based on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), for building automatic recovery controllers to guide distributed system recovery...
Kaustubh R. Joshi, William H. Sanders, Matti A. Hi...