This paper presents the design of Mercury, a scalable protocol for supporting multi-attribute rangebased searches. Mercury differs from previous range-based query systems in that...
Ashwin R. Bharambe, Mukesh Agrawal, Srinivasan Ses...
This paper investigates the performance of task assignment policies for server farms, as the variability of job sizes (service demands) approaches infinity. Our results reveal th...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew R. ...
Abstract. We introduce SONAR, a structured overlay to store and retrieve objects addressed by multi-dimensional names (keys). The overlay has the shape of a multi-dimensional torus...
Conventional wireless networks employ a contention based channel access mechanism, which not only imposes high latency but also reduces goodput of the network. Lack of interference...
Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
— We are given an equal number of mobile robotic agents, and distinct target locations. Each agent has simple integrator dynamics, a limited communication range, and knowledge of...