—It is well-known that the overall efficiency of a distributed system can suffer if the participating entities seek to maximize their individual performance. Consequently, mecha...
—State signaling and maintenance mechanisms play crucial roles in communication network protocols. State is used to facilitate indirections in protocols such as routing. Design a...
Utku Gunay Acer, Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Shivkumar ...
In this paper we discuss the problem of network fairness. Traditional network fairness focuses on treating uneven resource (such as bandwidth) allocation in TCP congestion control...
In previous papers, I have argued that while parallel mechanisms are well known for their favorable structural properties, their utility is generally limited by an inherently small...
We propose a market mechanism that can be implemented on clustering aggregation problem among selfish systems, which tend to lie about their correct clustering during aggregation ...