Background: To characterize the diversity of bacterial populations in metagenomic studies, sequencing reads need to be accurately assigned to taxonomic units in a given reference ...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
Abstract—In large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming systems with a limited supply of server bandwidth, increasing the amount of upload bandwidth supplied by peers becomes c...
Abstract. Renewed interest in ALOHA-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols stems from their proposed applications to wireless ad hoc and sensor networks that require distribut...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems such as Gnutella and KaZaa are routinely used by millions of people for sharing music and many other files over the Internet, and they account for a si...