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SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
ISSTA
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting purity for atomicity
The notion that certain procedures are atomic is a fundamental correctness property of many multithreaded software systems. A procedure is atomic if for every execution there is a...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund, Shaz Qadeer
ACMACE
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing a motion capture interface by introducing context management
Nowadays, video games propose rich scenarios with movementsbased game play, through the manipulation of dedicated devices. The motivation of this study is the elaboration of a com...
Francois Picard, Pascal Estraillier
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Energy optimal speed control of devices with discrete speed sets
We obtain analytically, the energy optimal speed profile of a generic multi-speed device with a discrete set of speeds, to execute a given task within a given time. Current implem...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula
MSWIM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On providing location privacy for mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks have attracted increasing attentions considering their potentials for being widely adopted in both emerging civil and military applications. A common prac...
Edith C.-H. Ngai, Ioana Rodhe