The popularity and bandwidth consumption attributed to current Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications makes the operation of these distributed systems very important for the Inte...
Abstract— This paper describes an original approach to writing reactive algorithms on highly dynamic networks. We propose to use randomly mobile agents to gather global informati...
A classic example of multiagent coordination in a shared environment involves the use of pheromone deposits as a communication mechanism. Due to physical limitations in deploying ...
Brian Hrolenok, Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, Christo...
— Hybrid Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols combine the strength of random and schedule based MAC schemes. From random MAC schemes, Hybrid MAC protocols borrow flexibility an...
Yuvraj. K. Rana, Bao Hua Liu, Alfandika Nyandoro, ...
We develop and evaluate a system for load management in shared-disk file systems built on clusters of heterogeneous computers. The system generalizes load balancing and server pr...