In this paper, we present a graph-theoretic framework for provisioning overlay network based multimedia distribution services to a diverse set of receivers. Considering resource l...
Recent years have seen rapid growth of online services that rely on large-scale server clusters to handle high volume of requests. Such clusters must adaptively control the CPU ut...
The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
Abstract. We provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities ...
Monte Carlo localization (MCL) is a Bayesian algorithm for mobile robot localization based on particle filters, which has enjoyed great practical success. This paper points out a ...