It is known that, for every constant k 3, the presence of a k-clique (a complete subgraph on k vertices) in an n-vertex graph cannot be detected by a monotone boolean circuit usi...
— We give an optimal solution to the Maximum All Request Path Grooming (MARPG) problem motivated by a traffic grooming application. The MARPG problem consists in finding the ma...
Jean-Claude Bermond, Michel Cosnard, David Coudert...
We study the problem of designing a survivable WDM network based on covering the communication requests with subnetworks that are protected independently from each other. We consi...
Abstract—Recent advances in computer technology and wireless communications have enabled the emergence of stream-based sensor networks. In such sensor networks, real-time data ar...
Lei Ying, Zhen Liu, Donald F. Towsley, Cathy H. Xi...
We address in this paper the problem of scheduling for multiprocessor real-time systems with hard and soft tasks. Utility functions are associated to soft tasks to capture their r...