This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
Abstract. In the frequency allocation problem we are given a cellular telephone network whose geographical coverage area is divided into cells where phone calls are serviced by fre...
Abstract--With the growing computer networks, accessible data is becoming increasing distributed. Understanding and integrating remote and unfamiliar data sources are important dat...
Programmers of large-scale trusted systems need tools to simplify tasks such as replicating services or data. Group communication systems achieve this via various flavors of relia...
Researchers have reported successful deployments of diagnosis decision support systems based on Bayesian networks. However, the methodology for evaluating the diagnosability for s...