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PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Tight bounds for clock synchronization
d Abstract] Christoph Lenzen Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland lenzen@tik.ee.ethz.ch Thomas Locher Computer Engineering and N...
Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Roger Wattenhofer
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Concurrent imitation dynamics in congestion games
Imitating successful behavior is a natural and frequently applied approach to trust in when facing scenarios for which we have little or no experience upon which we can base our d...
Heiner Ackermann, Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fischer,...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Max registers, counters, and monotone circuits
A method is given for constructing a max register, a linearizable, wait-free concurrent data structure that supports a write operation and a read operation that returns the larges...
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Oblivious interference scheduling
In the interference scheduling problem, one is given a set of n communication requests described by pairs of points from a metric space. The points correspond to devices in a wire...
Alexander Fanghänel, Berthold Vöcking, H...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Preventing versus curing: avoiding conflicts in transactional memories
Transactional memories are typically speculative and rely on contention managers to cure conflicts. This paper explores a complementary approach that prevents conflicts by schedul...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Rachid Guerraoui, Anmol V. ...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Brief announcement: global consistency can be easier than point-to-point communication
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Parsimonious flooding in dynamic graphs
Hervé Baumann, Pierluigi Crescenzi, Pierre ...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Distributed and parallel algorithms for weighted vertex cover and other covering problems
The paper presents distributed and parallel -approximation algorithms for covering problems, where is the maximum number of variables on which any constraint depends (for example...
Christos Koufogiannakis, Neal E. Young
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Dynamic atomic storage without consensus
This paper deals with the emulation of atomic read/write (R/W) storage in dynamic asynchronous message passing systems. In static settings, it is well known that atomic R/W storag...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Idit Keidar, Dahlia Malkh...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Load balancing without regret in the bulletin board model
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...
Éva Tardos, Georgios Piliouras, Robert D. K...