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Sharing the cost of muliticast transmissions (preliminary version). (English) Zbl 1296.68066

Proceedings of the thirty-second annual ACM symposium on theory of computing (STOC 2000), Portland, Oregon, USA, May 21–23, 2000. New York, NY: ACM Press (ISBN 1-58113-184-4). 218-227 (2000).

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68Q17 Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.)
68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems
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