We investigate balls-and-bins processes where m weighted balls are placed into n bins using the "power of two choices" paradigm, whereby a ball is inserted into the less...
Thousands of competing autonomous systems must cooperate with each other to provide global Internet connectivity. Each autonomous system (AS) encodes various economic, business, a...
(Appears as a regular paper in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington D.C, IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2002, p...
Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a ve...
— In this paper we show that significant simplicity can be exploited for pricing-based control of large networks. We first consider a general loss network with Poisson arrivals...