One feature of many naturally occurring or engineered complex systems is tremendous variability in event sizes. To account for it, the behavior of these systems is often described...
Walter Willinger, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, L...
Distributed real-time embedded systems have stringent requirements for key performance properties, such as endto-end timeliness and reliability, in order to operate properly. In r...
Despite the scalability, availability and resiliency potential suggested by Distributed Hash Tables, their lack of support for replication of mutable data and for strong consisten...
Ben Temkow, Anne-Marie Bosneag, Xinjie Li, Monica ...
This paper investigates resource allocation policies for achieving real-time content distribution with subsecond delay bounds on the current Internet. Resource allocation in real-...
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...