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ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting MAC Layer Back-off Timer Violations in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In IEEE 802.11 based ad hoc networks, by simply manipulating the back-off timers and/or wait times prior to transmission, malicious nodes can cause a drastically reduced allocatio...
Venkata Nishanth Lolla, Lap Kong Law, Srikanth V. ...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Tolerating Byzantine Faulty Clients in a Quorum System
Byzantine quorum systems have been proposed that work properly even when up to f replicas fail arbitrarily. However, these systems are not so successful when confronted with Byzan...
Barbara Liskov, Rodrigo Rodrigues
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Utility Optimization for Event-Driven Distributed Infrastructures
Event-driven distributed infrastructures are becoming increasingly important for information dissemination and application integration. We examine the problem of optimal resource ...
Cristian Lumezanu, Sumeer Bhola, Mark Astley
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Interplay of ISPs: Distributed Resource Allocation and Revenue Maximization
The Internet is a hierarchical architecture comprising heterogeneous entities of privately owned infrastructures, where higher level Internet service providers (ISPs) supply conne...
Sam C. M. Lee, Joe W. J. Jiang, John C. S. Lui, Da...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Stable and Accurate Network Coordinates
Network coordinates provide a scalable way to estimate latencies among large numbers of hosts. While there are several algorithms for producing coordinates, none account for the f...
Jonathan Ledlie, Peter R. Pietzuch, Margo I. Seltz...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Loss and Queuing-Delay Controller for Router Buffer Management
— Active queue management (AQM) in routers has been proposed as a solution to some of the scalability issues associated with TCP’s pure end-to-end approach to congestion contro...
Long Le, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On the Access Pricing Issues of Wireless Mesh Networks
This paper studies the use of pricing as an incentive mechanism to encourage private, self-interested nodes to participate in a public wireless mesh network and cooperate in the p...
Ray K. Lam, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Chiu
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Clustering in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
In this paper, we study distributed approximation algorithms for fault-tolerant clustering in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. A k-fold dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) is...
Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On Estimating Tight-Link Bandwidth Characteristics over Multi-Hop Paths
Abstract— In this paper, we explore multi-hop bandwidth estimation assuming arbitrary cross-traffic at each node and develop a new probing method called Envelope that can asympt...
Seong-ryong Kang, Amit Bhati, Dmitri Loguinov, Xil...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Hierarchical Optimization Framework for Autonomic Performance Management of Distributed Computing Systems
This paper develops a scalable online optimization framework for the autonomic performance management of distributed computing systems operating in a dynamic environment to satisf...
Nagarajan Kandasamy, Sherif Abdelwahed, Mohit Khan...