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SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
117views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
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First-price path auctions
We study first-price auction mechanisms for auctioning flow between given nodes in a graph. A first-price auction is any auction in which links on winning paths are paid their ...
Nicole Immorlica, David R. Karger, Evdokia Nikolov...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
118views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
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Nearly insensitive bounds on SMART scheduling
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
MMSEC
2004
ACM
137views Multimedia» more  MMSEC 2004»
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Perturbed quantization steganography with wet paper codes
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to passive-warden steganography in which the sender embeds the secret message into a certain subset of the cover object without having t...
Jessica J. Fridrich, Miroslav Goljan, David Soukal
SIGCOMM
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A first-principles approach to understanding the internet's router-level topology
A detailed understanding of the many facets of the Internet’s topological structure is critical for evaluating the performance of networking protocols, for assessing the effecti...
Lun Li, David Alderson, Walter Willinger, John Doy...