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SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
On the design of hybrid peer-to-peer systems
In this paper, we consider hybrid peer-to-peer systems where users form an unstructured peer-to-peer network with the purpose of assisting a server in the distribution of data. We...
Stratis Ioannidis, Peter Marbach
CORR
2004
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Understanding Search Trees via Statistical Physics
We study the random m-ary search tree model (where m stands for the number of branches of the search tree), an important problem for data storage in computer science, using a varie...
Satya N. Majumdar, David S. Dean, Paul L. Krapivsk...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Peer Sampling Service: Experimental Evaluation of Unstructured Gossip-Based Implementations
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
Márk Jelasity, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie...
EUROCRYPT
1990
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Experimental Quantum Cryptography
We describe results from an apparatus and protocol designed to implement quantum key distribution, by which two users, who share no secret information initially: 1) exchange a ran...
Charles H. Bennett, François Bessette, Gill...
BMCBI
2011
14 years 9 months ago
Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...