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ALGORITHMICA
2002
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14 years 11 months ago
A Tutorial for Designing Flexible Geometric Algorithms
The implementation of an algorithm is faced with the issues efficiency, flexibility, and ease-of-use. In this paper, we suggest a design concept that greatly increases the flexibi...
Vikas Kapoor, Dietmar Kühl, Alexander Wolff
FOCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Protection Mechanisms for Optical WDM Networks based on Wavelength Converter
Abstract— This paper studies the problem of designing survivable optical wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks. A wavelength-routed wide area backbone network supporting...
Sunil Gowda, Krishna M. Sivalingam
WINE
2010
Springer
168views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
On the Competitive Ratio of Online Sampling Auctions
We study online profit-maximizing auctions for digital goods with adversarial bid selection and uniformly random arrivals. Our goal is to design auctions that are constant competit...
Elias Koutsoupias, George Pierrakos
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
117views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2002»
14 years 11 months ago
Context-aware TCP/IP
Abstract-This paper discusses the design and evaluation of CATNIP, a ContextAware Transport/Network Internet Protocol for the Web. This integrated protocol uses application-layer k...
Carey L. Williamson, Qian Wu