Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...
This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...
Recently, there has been substantial interest in the design of crosslayer protocols for wireless networks. These protocols optimize certain performance metric(s) of interest (e.g....
Deepti Chafekar, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marat...
—Valiant’s concept of Randomized Load Balancing (RLB), also promoted under the name ‘two-phase routing’, has previously been shown to provide a cost-effective way of implem...
Ravi Prasad, Peter J. Winzer, Sem C. Borst, Marina...
Many combinatorial problems can be modelled as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Solving a general CSP is known to be NP-complete, so closure and heuristic search are usual...
Miguel A. Salido, Montserrat Abril, Federico Barbe...