C o n si st en t * lete * W ll D o c u m e n t e d * E a s y t o R e u s e * * E v a l u a t e d * E C O O P * Ar tifact * A E C The developers of today’s cloud computing systems are expected to not only create applications that will work well at scale, but also to create management services that will monitor run-time conditions and intervene to address problems as conditions evolve. Management...

Gossip-based protocols are an e cient mechanism for man-aging pure unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Such protocols are Newscast, Cyclone, Lbpcast, etc. They have overcome from several di culties of such P2P random overlay connection. Such difficulties are randomness, high churn rate, very large unstructured distributed net-work, etc. But the performance of all gossip-based protocols ha...

Many distributed applications are beginning to employ gossip-based message dissemination, where the burden of content distribution is shared democratically among the recipient nodes, e.g., for RSS distribution. However, such systems have many communication channels, i.e., multiple gossip streams may be present within the same application, e.g., an RSS content distribution system involves severa...

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 attracted interest as they are scalable, easy to deploy, and resilient to network and process failures. However, traditional gossip-based protocols have two major drawbacks: 1) They rely on each peer having knowledge ...

Gossip-based protocols have received considerable attention for broadcast applications due to their attractive scalability and reliability properties. The reliability of probabilistic gossip schemes studied so far depends on each user having knowledge of the global membership and choosing gossip targets uniformly at random. The requirement of global knowledge is undesirable in largescale distri...

HUANG, YUFAN. Gossip-based Information Spreading in Mobile and Social Networks. (Under the direction of Dr. Huaiyu Dai.) We study the performance of gossip-based information spreading in different network models. Our study is conducted in two major different circumstances: mobile networks and social networks. In mobile networks, we mainly study two problems: single-piece information spreading w...

In recent years, a number of applications of ad-hoc networks have been proposed. Many of them are based on the availability of a robust and reliable multicast protocol. In this paper, we address the issue of reliability and propose a scalable method to improve packet delivery of multicast routing protocols and decrease the variation in the number of packets received by different nodes. The prop...