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PE
2006
Springer
91views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Performance of peer-to-peer networks: Service capacity and role of resource sharing policies
In this paper we model and study the performance of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in terms of their `service capacity'. We identify two regimes of interest: the tra...
Xiangying Yang, Gustavo de Veciana
SWARM
2008
SPRINGER
115views Optimization» more  SWARM 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Path formation in a robot swarm
We present two swarm intelligence control mechanisms used for distributed robot path formation. In the first, the robots form linear chains. We study three variants of robot chains...
Shervin Nouyan, Alexandre Campo, Marco Dorigo
ICPP
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Accelerating Checkpoint Operation by Node-Level Write Aggregation on Multicore Systems
—Clusters and applications continue to grow in size while their mean time between failure (MTBF) is getting smaller. Checkpoint/Restart is becoming increasingly important for lar...
Xiangyong Ouyang, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Dhabales...
MANSCI
2006
104views more  MANSCI 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Proportionally fair allocation of end-to-end bandwidth in STDMA wireless networks
We consider the problem of designing distributed mechanisms for joint congestion control and resource allocation in spatial-reuse TDMA wireless networks. The design problem is pos...
Pablo Soldati, Björn Johansson, Mikael Johans...