Abstract— Distributed generation (DG) of electricity is providing an increasing part of the worldwide electricity supply. At the same time, there is a big potential of demand res...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
While the canonical behavior of today’s home Internet users involves several residents concurrently executing diverse Internet applications, the most common home configuration ...
Jon Gretarsson, Feng Li, Mingzhe Li, Ashish Samant...
Measurement and estimation of packet loss characteristics are challenging due to the relatively rare occurrence and typically short duration of packet loss episodes. While active ...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Nick G. Duffield, Amos...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...