In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems where individual peers must cooperate to process each other's requests, a useful metric for evaluating the system is how many remote requests ar...
We study the issue of convergence of user rates and resource prices under a family of rate control schemes called dual algorithms with arbitrary communication delays. We first con...
The Discriminatory Processor Sharing (DPS) model is a multi-class generalization of the egalitarian Processor Sharing model. In the DPS model all jobs present in the system are se...
Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Urtzi Ayesta
The agreement problem is studied whereby a group of mobile agents achieves convergence to a common point. A hierarchical cyclic pursuit scheme is introduced, and it is shown that ...
Stephen L. Smith, Mireille E. Broucke, Bruce A. Fr...
—This paper focus on noncooperative iris recognition, i.e., the capture of iris images at large distances, under less controlled lighting conditions, and without active participa...