In this paper we study the enforcement of social laws in artificial social systems using a control system. We define the enforceable social law problem as an extension of Tennen...
The limitations of BGP routing in the Internet are often blamed for poor end-to-end performance and prolonged connectivity interruptions. Recent work advocates using overlays to e...
Aditya Akella, Jeffrey Pang, Bruce M. Maggs, Srini...
We consider a wireless collision channel, shared by a finite number of mobile users who transmit to a common base station using a random access protocol. Mobiles are selfoptimizin...
We propose and evaluate a model for controlling infection patterns defined over rounds or real time in a gossipbased protocol using adaptive fanout. We model three versions of go...
Distributed-system observation tools require an efficient data structure to store and query the partial-order of execution. Such data structures typically use vector timestamps to...