ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
Differentiated services architectures are scalable solutions for providing class-based Quality of Service (QoS) over packet switched networks. While qualitative attributes of the o...
Expertise locator systems have been designed to help find experts within organizations. While there are many examples of these systems in the literature, there has not been any sy...
Skew is prevalent in data streams, and should be taken into account by algorithms that analyze the data. The problem of finding "biased quantiles"-- that is, approximate...
Graham Cormode, Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Dives...
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling uncertainty by distributions. Suppose we wish to compute a function of a stream whose elements are samples drawn independen...