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diff --git a/supplementary/acknowledgments.tex b/supplementary/acknowledgments.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6086310 --- /dev/null +++ b/supplementary/acknowledgments.tex @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Academic work is never done in a vaccuum, and I owe thanks to several +people whose advice and feedback have been invaluable over the course +of the work described in this dissertation. + +First, and most obviously, I owe a lot to Dr. Dong Xie for serving as +my advisor. We haven't always seen eye to eye on what the appropriate +priorities of this work should be, and he has been very patient in the +face of my grumbling. While this project branched out into something +far larger than the mere journal extension to his SIRS paper that he +had originally envisioned, the original idea that spawned this line of +work was entirely his. On that note, thanks are also owed to Dr. Jeff +Philips for originally pointing us in the direction of the dynamization +work by Bentley, Saxe, and Overmars. + +Other academic collegues that are deserving of mention here are +Dr. Ryan Stutsman, whose advice on techniques for representing +tail latency distributions was absolutely critical to the work +described in Chapter~\ref{chap:tail-latency}, and Dr. Zhuoyue Zhao, +who collaborated directly with us on the work that ultimately became +Chapter~\ref{chap:framework}. Chapter~\ref{chap:design-space} has been +influenced, in part, by conversations with Dr. Niv Dayan. + +I also owe thanks to several of my fellow PhD students. The fact that +this document is even vaguely coherent is due in large part to Julia +Custatis's attention to detail. Maxwell Norfolk and Jinyu Liu (as well +as Julia) all got to suffer through being used as sounding boards for +various assortments of my harebrained ideas. Along those same lines, +Dr. Jack Sampson was instrumental to the maintenance of my sanity over +these past few years. + +Thanks everyone. I could have never done this without you. diff --git a/supplementary/nomenclature.tex b/supplementary/nomenclature.tex index 01e0d48..15565a9 100644 --- a/supplementary/nomenclature.tex +++ b/supplementary/nomenclature.tex @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ $N_B$ & Capacity of the mutable buffer \\ \hline $s$ & Scale factor \\ \hline $B(n)$ & Data structure construction cost from unsorted records \\ \hline - $B_M(n)$ & Data structure construction cost from merging existing instances\\ \hline + $B_M(n, k)$ & Data structure construction cost from merging $k$ existing instances\\ \hline $L(n)$ & Point-lookup cost \\ \hline $\mathscr{Q}(n)$ & Worst-case query cost over entire structure \\ \hline - $\mathscr{Q}_S(n)$ & Worst-csae query cost over a single block/shard \\ \hline + $\mathscr{Q}_S(n)$ & Worst-case query cost over a single block/shard \\ \hline + $\mathscr{Q}_B(n)$ & Best-case query cost over entire structure \\ \hline $I_A(n)$ & Amortized insertion cost \\ \hline $I(n)$ & Worst-case insertion cost \\ \hline $I_B(n)$ & Best-case insertion cost \\ \hline |