In this work we study a wide range of online and offline routing and packing problems with various objectives. We provide a unified approach, based on a clean primal-dual method...
— Recent advances have demonstrated the potential benefits of coordinated management of thermal load in data centers, including reduced cooling costs and improved resistance to ...
Justin D. Moore, Jeffrey S. Chase, Parthasarathy R...
For decades now, the notion of “performance” has been synonymous with “speed” (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). Unfortunately, this ...
The fast spreading worm is becoming one of the most serious threats to today’s networked information systems. A fast spreading worm could infect hundreds of thousands of hosts w...
Songqing Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Xinwen Zhang
A quorum system over a universe of logical elements is a collection of subsets (quorums) of elements, any two of which intersect. In numerous distributed algorithms, the elements ...
Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Flor...