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SIAMCOMP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
The Complexity of Early Deciding Set Agreement
Set agreement, where processors decisions constitute a set of outputs, is notoriously harder to analyze than consensus where the decisions are restricted to a single output. This ...
Eli Gafni, Rachid Guerraoui, Bastian Pochon
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Border Effects, Fairness, and Phase Transition in Large Wireless Networks
—We characterize the fairness of decentralized medium access control protocols based on CSMA/CA, such as IEEE 802.11, in large multi-hop wireless networks. In particular, we show...
Mathilde Durvy, Olivier Dousse, Patrick Thiran
TPDS
2010
135views more  TPDS 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 21 days ago
Q-learning of sequential attention for visual object recognition from informative local descriptors
This work provides a framework for learning sequential attention in real-world visual object recognition, using an architecture of three processing stages. The first stage rejects...
Lucas Paletta, Gerald Fritz, Christin Seifert
NETWORKING
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Interference-Aware Multicasting in Wireless Mesh Networks
Multicasting is one of the most important applications in Wireless Ad hoc Networks and the currently emerging Wireless Mesh Networks. In such networks, interference due to the shar...
Sudheendra Murthy, Abhishek Goswami, Arunabha Sen