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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Stochastic approximation algorithm for optimal throughput performance of wireless LANs
In this paper, we consider the problem of throughput maximization in an infrastructure based WLAN. We demonstrate that most of the proposed protocols though perform optimally for ...
Sundaresan Krishnan, Prasanna Chaporkar
TCBB
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm
The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set...
Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Approximation algorithms for time-constrained scheduling on line networks
We consider the problem of time-constrained scheduling of packets in a communication network. Each packet has, in addition to its source and its destination, a release time and a ...
Harald Räcke, Adi Rosén
WSC
2007
15 years 1 months ago
The optimizing-simulator: merging simulation and optimization using approximate dynamic programming
There has long been a competition between simulation and optimization in the modeling of problems in transportation and logistics, machine scheduling and similar highdimensional p...
Warren B. Powell
WADS
2005
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  WADS 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
Near-Optimal Pricing in Near-Linear Time
We present efficient approximation algorithms for a number of problems that call for computing the prices that maximize the revenue of the seller on a set of items. Algorithms for ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vladlen Koltun