This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
This paper builds a complete modeling framework for understanding user churn and in-degree dynamics in unstructured P2P systems in which each user can be viewed as a stationary al...
Many network-management problems in large backbone networks need the answer to a seemingly simple question: where does a given IP packet, entering the network at a particular plac...
Yaping Zhu, Jennifer Rexford, Subhabrata Sen, Aman...
This paper studies under what conditions congestion control schemes can be both efficient, so that capacity is not wasted, and incentive compatible, so that each participant can m...
Brighten Godfrey, Michael Schapira, Aviv Zohar, Sc...