— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
Today’s inter-domain routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is increasingly complicated and fragile due to policy misconfiguration by individual autonomous system...
Anduo Wang, Alexander J. T. Gurney, Xianglong Han,...
Consider a set of players that are interested in collectively evaluating a set of objects. We develop a collaborative scoring protocol in which each player evaluates a subset of t...
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
We present a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in, the phone first...