Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences by Title
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A Layered Architecture for Erasure-Coded Consistent Distributed Storage
(ACM, 2017-07-25)© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. Motivated by emerging applications to the edge computing paradigm, we introduce a two-layer erasure-coded fault-tolerant distributed storage system offering atomic access for ... -
Leader Election Using Loneliness Detection
(2011-10-12)We consider the problem of leader election (LE) in single-hop radio networks with synchronized time slots for transmitting and receiving messages. We assume that the actual number n of processes is unknown, while the size ... -
Leader election using loneliness detection
(Springer-Verlag, 2012-06-26)We consider the problem of leader election (LE) in single-hop radio networks with synchronized time slots for transmitting and receiving messages. We assume that the actual number n of processes is unknown, while the size ... -
A Local Broadcast Layer for the SINR Network Model
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015-07)We present the first algorithm that implements an abstract MAC (absMAC) layer in the Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio (SINR) wireless network model. We first prove that efficient SINR implementations are not possible ... -
MAC Design for Analog Network Coding
(2010-08-02)Most medium access control mechanisms discard collided packets and consider interference harmful. Recent work on Analog Network Coding (ANC) suggests a different approach, in which multiple interfering transmissions are ... -
MAC Design for Analog Network Coding
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2011-06)Most medium access control (MAC) mechanisms discard collided packets and consider interference harmful. Recent work on Analog Network Coding (ANC) suggests a different approach, in which multiple interfering transmissions ... -
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits - 2006 Electronic Edition
(2006-10-01)Combining semiconductor device physics and modeling with electronic circuit analysis and practice in a single sophomore/junior level microelectronics course, this textbook offers an integrated approach so students can truly ... -
Modeling Computational Security in Long-Lived Systems, Version 2
(2008-11-22)For many cryptographic protocols, security relies on the assumption that adversarial entities have limited computational power. This type of security degrades progressively over the lifetime of a protocol. However, some ... -
Modeling Radio Networks
(2009-06-04)We describe a modeling framework and collection of foundational composition results for the study of probabilistic distributed algorithms in synchronous radio networks. Existing results in this setting rely on informal ... -
Modeling radio networks
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011-07-06)We describe a modeling framework and collection of foundational composition results for the study of probabilistic distributed algorithms in synchronous radio networks. Though the radio setting has been studied extensively ... -
Motion Coordination Using Virtual Nodes
(2005-04-06)We describe how a virtual node abstraction layer can be used to coordinate the motion of real mobile nodes in a region of 2-space. In particular, we consider how nodes in a mobile ad hoc network can arrange themselves along ... -
Multi-message broadcast with abstract MAC layers and unreliable links
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014-07)We study the multi-message broadcast problem using abstract MAC layer models of wireless networks. These models capture the key guarantees of existing MAC layers while abstracting away low-level details such as signal ... -
MultiChord: A Resilient Namespace Management Protocol
(2004-02-19)MultiChord is a new variant of the Chord namespace management algorithm [7] that includes lightweight mechanismsfor accommodating a limited rate of change, specifically, process joins and failures. This paper describes ... -
Neighbor discovery in mobile ad hoc networks using an abstract MAC layer
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-01)We explore the problem of neighbor discovery in a mobile ad hoc network environment. We describe a protocol for learning about neighboring nodes in such an environment. The protocol is used for establishing and tearing ... -
Neuro-RAM unit with applications to similarity testing and compression in spiking neural networks
(2017)© Nancy Lynch, Cameron Musco, and Merav Parter;. We study distributed algorithms implemented in a simplified biologically inspired model for stochastic spiking neural networks. We focus on tradeoffs between computation ... -
On simple back-off in unreliable radio networks
(2018)© Seth Gilbert, Nancy Lynch, Calvin Newport, and Dominik Pajak. In this paper, we study local and global broadcast in the dual graph model, which describes communication in a radio network with both reliable and unreliable ... -
On the weakest failure detector ever
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009-01)Many problems in distributed computing are impossible to solve when no information about process failures is available. It is common to ask what information about failures is necessary and sufficient to circumvent some ... -
Partial Reversal Acyclicity
(2011-04-14)Partial Reversal (PR) is a link reversal algorithm which ensures that the underlying graph structure is destination-oriented and acyclic. These properties of PR make it useful in routing protocols and algorithms for solving ... -
Perspectives on the CAP Theorem
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-02)Almost twelve years ago, in 2000, Eric Brewer introduced the idea that there is a fundamental trade-off between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. This trade-off, which has become known as the CAP Theorem, ... -
RADON: Repairable Atomic Data Object in Networks
(2016)© Kishori M. Konwar, N. Prakash, Nancy A. Lynch, and Muriel Medard. Erasure codes offer an efficient way to decrease storage and communication costs while implementing atomic memory service in asynchronous distributed ...
