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HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Precise and realistic utility functions for user-centric performance analysis of schedulers
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Cynthia Bailey Lee, Allan Snavely
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Adding incentives to file-sharing systems
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems rely heavily on the willingness of users to distribute files to others. A selfish user can choose to download a file and consume resou...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
CCR
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
A real options framework to value network, protocol, and service architecture
This paper proposes a real options framework for evaluating architectural choices and the economic value of these alternative choices of networks, protocols, and services. Using p...
Mark Gaynor, Scott Bradner
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Resilient Localization for Sensor Networks in Outdoor Environments
The process of computing the physical locations of nodes in a wireless sensor network is known as localization. Selflocalization is critical for large-scale sensor networks becaus...
YoungMin Kwon, Kirill Mechitov, Sameer Sundresh, W...
HPCC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Managing Peak Loads by Leasing Cloud Infrastructure Services from a Spot Market
Dedicated computing clusters are typically sized based on an expected average workload over a period of years, rather than on peak workloads, which might exist for relatively shor...
Michael Mattess, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buy...