Abstract— Natural or man-made disasters can partition networks while threatening human lives. Because conventional Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) cannot route messages across pa...
As more people take part in online conversations, awareness of the varying conversational styles and social mores afforded by different software is growing. However, this awarenes...
We consider unicast-based pipelined broadcast schemes for clusters connected by multiple Ethernet switches. By splitting a large broadcast message into segments and broadcasting t...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) raise new challenges in designing protocols for solving the consensus problem. Among the others, how to design message efficient protocols so as to...
Today’s large-scale distributed systems consist of collections of nodes that have highly variable availability — a phenomenon sometimes called churn. This availability variati...