Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
Our research addresses two important problems that arise in modern large-scale distributed systems: (1) the necessity to virtualize their data flows by applying actions such as ï...
Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan,...
Numerous recent papers have found important relationships between network structure and risks within networks. These results indicate that network structure can dramatically affec...
Paul Hines, Seth Blumsack, E. Cotilla Sanchez, C. ...
In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), broadcasting is widely used to support many applications. Several adaptive broadcast schemes have been proposed to reduce the number of rebroadc...