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SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 11 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
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Gossip algorithms: design, analysis and applications
Abstract— Motivated by applications to sensor, peer-topeer and ad hoc networks, we study distributed asynchronous algorithms, also known as gossip algorithms, for computation and...
Stephen P. Boyd, Arpita Ghosh, Balaji Prabhakar, D...
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
BARD: Bayesian-assisted resource discovery in sensor networks
Data dissemination in sensor networks requires four components: resource discovery, route establishment, packet forwarding, and route maintenance. Resource discovery can be the mos...
Fred Stann, John S. Heidemann
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Barrier coverage with wireless sensors
In old times, castles were surrounded by moats (deep trenches filled with water, and even alligators) to thwart or discourage intrusion attempts. One can now replace such barrier...
Santosh Kumar, Ten-Hwang Lai, Anish Arora
ECAL
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning
An evolutionary reinforcement-learning algorithm, the operation of which was not associated with an optimality condition, was instantiated in an artificial organism. The algorithm ...
J. J. McDowell, Zahra Ansari