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arXiv Distributed Computing

Fully Fluctuating Sleepy Consensus from Minimal Assumptions

arXiv:2609.03063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bitcoin's proof-of-work (PoW)-based protocol is remarkable for how little it asks of its participants. Not only can miners take breaks from work whenever they please, but it is almost unique in offering a path of contrition: corrupt miners can reclaim honest status simpl…

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arXiv Distributed Computing

Carbon-aware Resource Management for Latency-Sensitive Cloud Computing Environments: A Taxonomy and Future Directions

arXiv:2609.03270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proliferation of cloud-based latency-sensitive workloads requires infrastructures tuned to their workload-specific latency constraints. Today, they shape the cloud from a generalized computing platform to diverse workload-specific cloud environments. As the demand for la…

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arXiv Distributed Computing

Lantern: Finding Committable Transactions via Back-Propagation on DAGs

arXiv:2609.03315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing concurrency control protocols either introduce nondeterminism, resulting in a serial execution-replay dependency between primary and replica nodes, or rely on impractical prior knowledge of transaction read-write sets. In this paper, we present Lantern, a determ…

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arXiv Distributed Computing

Barnacle: Adaptive Multi-Leader Scheduling for DAG-Based Consensus

arXiv:2609.03978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In DAG-based consensus, all validators propose blocks concurrently, and designated leader blocks drive transaction commit. Having multiple leader slots per round cuts queuing latency, yet production deployments run a single leader because of head-of-line blocking: a slow…

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arXiv Distributed Computing

sp-DBA: a general framework for adaptive transform-domain computation

arXiv:2609.03922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transform-domain methods simplify analysis and computation, making them central to scientific computing and signal processing. However, existing adaptive strategies often introduce new data structures or require substantial workflow redesign, limiting efficient executi…

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