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INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Rainbow Fair Queueing: Fair Bandwidth Sharing Without Per-Flow State
Abstract—Fair bandwidth sharing at routers has several advantages, including protection of well-behaved flows and possible simplification of endto-end congestion control mechan...
Zhiruo Cao, Zheng Wang, Ellen W. Zegura
PODS
1999
ACM
121views Database» more  PODS 1999»
14 years 1 days ago
Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
ICCAD
1999
IEEE
181views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1999»
14 years 19 hour ago
A new heuristic for rectilinear Steiner trees
The minimum rectilinear Steiner tree (RST) problem is one of the fundamental problems in the field of electronic design automation. The problem is NP-hard, and much work has been ...
Ion I. Mandoiu, Vijay V. Vazirani, Joseph L. Ganle...
APPROX
2006
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Weighted Sum Coloring in Batch Scheduling of Conflicting Jobs
Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
Leah Epstein, Magnús M. Halldórsson,...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions Based on Gaussian Measures
We show that finding small solutions to random modular linear equations is at least as hard as approximating several lattice problems in the worst case within a factor almost line...
Daniele Micciancio, Oded Regev