Distributed data management systems consist of peers that store, exchange and process data in order to collaboratively achieve a common goal, such as evaluate some query. We study...
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...
We consider the randomized consensus protocol of Aspnes and Herlihy for achieving agreement among N asynchronous processes that communicate via read/write shared registers. The alg...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segal...
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Abstract—Network-coded cooperative communications (NCCC) is a new paradigm in wireless networks that employs network coding (NC) to improve the performance of CC. The core mechan...
Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, Hanif D. Sh...