This work considers Internet-based task computations in which a master process assigns tasks, over the Internet, to rational workers and collect their responses. The objective is for the master to obtain the correct task ...

We consider a wireless channel between a single pair of stations (sender and receiver) that is being “watched” and disrupted by a malicious, adversarial jammer. The sender’s objective is to transmit as much useful data as ...

We consider Internet-based master-worker computations, where a master processor assigns, across the Internet, a computational task to a set of untrusted worker processors, and collects their responses

We consider Internet-based master-worker computations, where a master processor assigns, across the Internet, a computational task to a set of untrusted worker processors, and collects their responses. Examples of such ...

The various applications using Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) or blockchains, have led to the introduction of a new `marketplace' where multiple types of digital assets may be exchanged. As each blockchain is designed ...

This work, using a game-theoretic approach, considers Internet-based computations, where a master processor assigns, over the Internet, a computational task to a set of untrusted worker processors, and collects their ...

Reliable task execution on machines that are prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts is both important and challenging, but not much work exists on the analysis of such systems. We consider the online version of the ...

Cooperation is one of the socio-economic issues that has received more attention from the physics community. The problem has been mostly considered by studying games such as the Prisoner's Dilemma or the Public Goods Game. ...

Despite the hype about blockchains and distributed ledgers, no formal abstraction of these objects has been proposed (This observation was also pointed out by Maurice Herlihy in his PODC2017 keynote talk). To face this ...

In this paper we explore the problem of achieving efficient packet transmission over unreliable links with worst case occurrence of errors. In such a setup, even an omniscient offline scheduling strategy cannot achieve ...