The emergence of networked devices in the home has made it possible to develop applications that control a variety of household functions. However, current devices communicate via ...
This paper considers a large-scale wireless sensor network where sensor readings are occasionally collected by a mobile sink, and sensor nodes are responsible for temporarily stori...
The emergence of grid and a new class of data-driven applications is making a new form of parallelism desirable, which we refer to as coarse-grained pipelined parallelism. This pa...
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...
— This paper studies the optimization techniques for scheduling multimedia packets in satellite digital multimedia broadcasting system, namely SDMB, in the presence of a return l...