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2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
How to Choose a Timing Model?
When employing a consensus algorithm for state machine replication, should one optimize for the case that all communication links are usually timely, or for fewer timely links? Do...
Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer
WSC
1997
15 years 5 months ago
Conduct, Misconduct, and Cargo Cult Science
I will elaborate some principles of ethical conduct in science that correspond to Richard Feynman’s wellknown precepts of “utter honesty” and “leaning over backwards” in...
James R. Wilson
TPDS
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
How to Choose a Timing Model
When employing a consensus algorithm for state machine replication, should one optimize for the case that all communication links are usually timely, or for fewer timely links? Do...
Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer
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ICC
2007
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Impatient Backoff Algorithm: Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC
— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...
Rajarshi Gupta, Jean C. Walrand
CCR
1998
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15 years 3 months ago
A comparative analysis of groupware application protocols
Two of the most difficult problems faced by developers of synchronous groupware applications are the handling of multiple session connections and the maintenance of replicated dat...
Mark Pendergast