At the TCP sender side, the arrival of an ack packet always triggers the sender to send data packets, which establishes a correspondency between the arrived ack packet and the sen...
—Network coding is an attracting technology that has been shown to be able to improve the throughput of wireless networks. However, there still lacks fundamental understanding on...
Dual decomposition has been recently proposed as a way of combining complementary models, with a boost in predictive power. However, in cases where lightweight decompositions are ...
A novel solution to the reliable multicast problem is the “digital fountain” approach, in which data is encoded with an erasure protection code before transmission, and receiv...
This paper explores the fundamental question of how many iterations the celebrated HITS algorithm requires on a general graph to converge in score and, perhaps more importantly, in...