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SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers
This paper studies the network-level behavior of spammers, including: IP address ranges that send the most spam, common spamming modes (e.g., BGP route hijacking, bots), how persi...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Nick Feamster
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)
To enhance web browsing experiences, content distribution networks (CDNs) move web content “closer” to clients by caching copies of web objects on thousands of servers worldwi...
Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Aleksandar Kuzmanovi...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Pedagogical techniques supported by the use of student devices in teaching software engineering
This paper describes our experiences in promoting a learning environment where active student involvement and interaction, as well as openness to diversity of ideas are supported ...
Valentin Razmov, Richard J. Anderson
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
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