• closedAccess   A Methodological Construction of an Efficient Sequentially Consistent Distributed Shared Memory 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Jiménez, Ernesto; Manzano, Pilar; raynal, michel Oxford University Press (2010)
      The paper proposes a simple protocol that ensures sequential consistency. The protocol assumes that the shared memory abstraction is supported by the local memories of nodes that can communicate only by exchanging messages ...
    • openAccess   A model of self-avoiding random walks for searching complex networks 

      López Millán, Víctor M.; Cholvi, Vicent; López, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio John Wiley & Sons (2012)
      Random walks have been proven useful in several applications in networks. Some variants of the basic random walk have been devised pursuing a suitable trade-off between better performance and limited cost. A self-avoiding ...
    • closedAccess   A parametrized algorithm that implements sequential, causal, and cache memory consistencies 

      Jiménez, Ernesto; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Cholvi, Vicent Elsevier (2008)
      In this paper, we present an algorithm that can be used to implement sequential, causal, or cache consistency in distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. For this purpose it includes a parameter that allows us to choose ...
    • openAccess   An Optimal Scheme to Recharge Communication Drones 

      Arribas, Edgar; Cholvi, Vicent; Mancuso, Vincenzo IEEE (2021)
      The adoption and integration of drones in communication networks is becoming reality thanks to the deployment of advanced solutions for IoT and cellular communication relay schemes. However, using drones introduces new ...
    • closedAccess   Analysis and placement of storage capacity in large distributed video servers 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Segarra Sola, José Vicente Elsevier (2008)
      In this paper, we study how to distribute storage capacity along a hierarchical system with cache-servers located at each node. This system is intended to deliver stored video streams in a video-on-demand way, ensuring ...
    • closedAccess   Atomic Appends in Asynchronous Byzantine Distributed Ledgers 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Georgiou, Chryssis; Nicolaou, Nicolas; raynal, michel; Russo, Antonio Elsevier (2023-12)
      A Distributed Ledger Object (DLO) is a concurrent object that maintains a totally ordered sequence of records. In this work we formalize a linearizable Byzantine-tolerant Distributed Ledger Object (BDLO), which is a ...
    • closedAccess   Bounds on Stability and Latency in Wireless Communication 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Kowalski, Dariusz R. IEEE (2010)
      In this paper, we study stability and latency of routing in wireless networks where it is assumed that no collision will occur. Our approach is inspired by the adversarial queuing theory, which is amended in order to model ...
    • openAccess   Brief Announcement: Implementing Byzantine Tolerant Distributed Ledger Objects 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Georgiou, Chryssis; Nicolaou, Nicolas Jukka Suomela (2019-10-14)
    • openAccess   Byzantine-Tolerant Distributed Grow-Only Sets: Specification and Applications 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Georgiou, Chryssis; Nicolaou, Nicolas; raynal, michel; Russo, Antonio Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH (2021-06-26)
      In order to formalize Distributed Ledger Technologies and their interconnections, a recent line of research work has formulated the notion of Distributed Ledger Object (DLO), which is a concurrent object that maintains ...
    • openAccess   Coverage Optimization with a Dynamic Network of Drone Relays 

      Arribas, Edgar; Mancuso, Vincenzo; Cholvi, Vicent Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2019-07-09)
      The integration of aerial base stations carried by drones in cellular networks offers promising opportunities to enhance the connectivity enjoyed by ground users. In this paper, we propose an optimization framework for the ...
    • openAccess   Dante: A Self-Adapting Peer-to-Peer System 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Rodero Merino, Luis; López, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio Springer Verlag (2008)
      In this paper we introduce DANTE, an unstructured P2P system in which the topology of the underlying overlay network can be dynamically adapted to the system conditions. Such an adaption is performed by the peers in an ...
    • closedAccess   Effective use of congestion in complex networks 

      Echagüe, Juan; Cholvi, Vicent; Kowalski, Dariusz R. Elsevier (2018)
      In this paper, we introduce a congestion-aware routing protocol that selects the pathsaccording to the congestion of nodes in the network. The aim is twofold: on one hand, andin order to prevent the networks from collapsing, ...
    • openAccess   Fair Cellular Throughput Optimization with the Aid of Coordinated Drones 

      Arribas, Edgar; Mancuso, Vincenzo; Cholvi, Vicent IEEE (2019-04-29)
      The interest on flexible air-to-ground channels from aerial base stations to enhance users access by seeking good line-of-sight connectivity from the air has increased in the past years. In this paper, we propose a deployable ...
    • closedAccess   Improving resource location with locally precomputed partial random walks 

      López Millán, Víctor M.; Cholvi, Vicent; López, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio Springer Vienna (2015-09)
      Random walks can be used to search complex networks for a desired resource. To reduce search lengths, we propose a mechanism based on building random walks connecting together partial walks (PW) previously computed at each ...
    • closedAccess   Interconnection of distributed memory models 

      Cholvi, Vicent; Jiménez, Ernesto; Fernández Anta, Antonio Elsevier (2009)
      In this paper, we present a framework to formally describe and study the interconnection of distributed shared memory systems. Using it allows us to classify the consistency models in two groups, depending on whether they ...
    • closedAccess   On the interconnection of message passing systems 

      Alvarez, Agustin; Arévalo, Sergio; Cholvi, Vicent; Fernández Anta, Antonio; Jiménez, Ernesto Elsevier (2008)
      One of the most important abstractions for designing distributed programs is the broadcast facility. In this paper, we study the interconnection of distributed message passing systems. We have shown that totally ordered ...
    • openAccess   Optimizing fairness in cellular networks with mobile drone relays 

      Cholvi, Vicent Elsevier (2023-02-10)
      Aiding the ground cellular network with aerial base stations carried by drones has experienced an intensive raise of interest in the past years. Reconfigurable air-to-ground channels enable aerial stations to enhance users’ ...
    • openAccess   Optimizing UAV Resupply Scheduling for Heterogeneous and Persistent Aerial Service 

      Arribas, Edgar; Cholvi, Vicent; Mancuso, Vincenzo Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2023-08)
      With the current advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, aerial vehicles are becoming very attractive for many purposes. However, currently the bottleneck in their adoption is no longer due to architectural ...
    • closedAccess   Parallel Interconnection of Broadcast Systems with Multiple FIFO Channels 

      De Juan Marín, Rubén; Cholvi, Vicent; Jiménez, Ernesto; Muñoz Escoí, Francesc D. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
      This paper proposes new protocols for the interconnection of FIFO- and causal-ordered broadcast systems, thus increasing their scalability. They use several interconnection links between systems, which avoids bottleneck ...
    • openAccess   Performance of random walks in one-hop replication networks 

      Rodero Merino, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio; López, Luis; Cholvi, Vicent Elsevier (2010)
      Random walks are gaining much attention from the networks research community. They are the basis of many proposals aimed to solve a variety of network-related problems such as resource location, network construction, nodes ...