Using microwaves to treat metal-based materials is rapidly emerging as an energy-efficient
tool to interact with metals for a number of processes such as sintering, melting, brazing …

We consider an unreliable wireless sensor grid network with n nodes placed in a square of
unit area. We are interested in the coverage of the region and the connectivity of the …

Gossip-based protocols for group communication have attractive scalability and reliability
properties. The probabilistic gossip schemes studied so far typically assume that each group …

The study of dynamic networks has come into popularity recently, and many models and
algorithms for such networks have been suggested. In this column we survey some recent …

The growth of the Internet raises new challenges for the design of distributed systems and
applications. In the context of group communication protocols, gossip-based schemes have …

Gossip, or epidemic, protocols have emerged as a powerful strategy to implement highly
scalable and resilient reliable broadcast primitives. Due to scalability reasons, each …

We present Brahms, an algorithm for sampling random nodes in a large dynamic system
prone to malicious behavior. Brahms stores small membership views at each node, and yet …

There is an inherent trade-off between epidemic and deterministic tree-based broadcast
primitives. Tree-based approaches have a small message complexity in steady-state but are …

IP anycast, with its innate ability to find nearby resources in a robust and efficient fashion,
has long been considered an important means of service discovery. The growth of P2P …

The newscast model is a general approach for communication in large agent-based
distributed systems. The two basic services—membership management and information …