Tree-based protocols are ubiquitous in distributed systems. They are flexible, they perform generally well, and, in static conditions, their analysis is mostly simple. Under churn...
Supriya Krishnamurthy, John Ardelius, Erik Aurell,...
A fundamental question in cryptography deals with understanding the role that randomness plays in cryptographic protocols and to what extent it is necessary. One particular line o...
Yi Deng, Dengguo Feng, Vipul Goyal, Dongdai Lin, A...
Abstract— Protocols for distributed hash tables (DHTs) incorporate features to achieve low latency for lookup requests in the face of churn, continuous changes in membership. The...
Jinyang Li, Jeremy Stribling, Robert Morris, M. Fr...
Everybody agrees that curing DFM/DFY issues is of paramount importance at 65 nanometers and beyond. Unfortunately, there is disagreement about how and when to cure them. “Surgeo...
Marco Casale-Rossi, Andrzej J. Strojwas, Robert C....
Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a central problem in cryptography. Unfortunately, it is well known that MPC is possible if and only if the underlying communication network...