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2005
139views more  ADHOC 2005»
13 years 7 months ago
Improving TCP performance in ad hoc networks using signal strength based link management
Mobility in ad hoc networks causes frequent link failures, which in turn causes packet losses. TCP attributes these packet losses to congestion. This incorrect inference results i...
Fabius Klemm, Zhenqiang Ye, Srikanth V. Krishnamur...
SAC
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A machine-checked soundness proof for an efficient verification condition generator
Verification conditions (VCs) are logical formulae whose validity implies the correctness of a program with respect to a specification. The technique of checking software properti...
Frédéric Vogels, Bart Jacobs 0002, F...
DATE
2006
IEEE
101views Hardware» more  DATE 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Design with race-free hardware semantics
Most hardware description languages do not enforce determinacy, meaning that they may yield races. Race conditions pose a problem for the implementation, verification, and validat...
Patrick Schaumont, Sandeep K. Shukla, Ingrid Verba...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
149views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Private Relationships in Social Networks
Current social networks implement very simple protection mechanisms, according to which a user can state whether his/her personal data, relationships, and resources should be eith...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Andrea Perego
ICDE
2011
IEEE
222views Database» more  ICDE 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Dynamic prioritization of database queries
— Enterprise database systems handle a variety of diverse query workloads that are of different importance to the business. For example, periodic reporting queries are usually mi...
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Florian Waas