Thomson wins Best Paper Award 

9/29/2009

The similarity between the spread of a virus and information in a distributed system gave birth to new communication protocols called epidemic algorithms, known to be surprisingly simple and efficient. A joint team between Thomson and EPFL recently went a step further: they showed that the propagation of a continuous sequence of new information, as news website or blogs, in a mobile network obeys a simple equilibrium. This work received the best paper award at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference and is featured in the Research Digest, 2nd Edition.

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