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MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Low-coordination topologies for redundancy in sensor networks
Tiny, low-cost sensor devices are expected to be failure-prone and hence in many realistic deployment scenarios for sensor networks these nodes are deployed in higher than necessa...
Rajagopal Iyengar, Koushik Kar, Suman Banerjee
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 7 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
DIALM
2005
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  DIALM 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Minimizing interference in ad hoc and sensor networks
Reducing interference is one of the main challenges in wireless communication, and particularly in ad hoc networks. The amount of interference experienced by a node v corresponds ...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Estimating sizes of social networks via biased sampling
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
Liran Katzir, Edo Liberty, Oren Somekh