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PODC
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Constructing fair-exchange protocols for E-commerce via distributed computation of RSA signatures
Applications such as e-commerce payment protocols, electronic contract signing, and certified e-mail delivery require that fair exchange be assured. A fair-exchange protocol allo...
Jung Min Park, Edwin K. P. Chong, Howard Jay Siege...
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SPAA
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A proportionate fair scheduling rule with good worst-case performance
In this paper we consider the following scenario. A set of n jobs with different threads is being run concurrently. Each job has an associated weight, which gives the proportion ...
Micah Adler, Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky, Les...
CIAC
2003
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations
Abstract. We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the...
Evangelos Kranakis, Paolo Penna, Konrad Schlude, D...
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ICNP
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Service Overlay Networks: SLAs, QoS and Bandwidth Provisioning
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...
Zhenhai Duan, Zhi-Li Zhang, Yiwei Thomas Hou
ICA3PP
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
InterCloud: Utility-Oriented Federation of Cloud Computing Environments for Scaling of Application Services
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros