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MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Composcan: adaptive scanning for efficient concurrent communications and positioning with 802.11
Using 802.11 concurrently for communications and positioning is problematic, especially if location-based services (e.g., indoor navigation) are concurrently executed with real-ti...
Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Thomas King
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Fundamental scaling laws for energy-efficient storage and querying in wireless sensor networks
We use a constrained optimization framework to derive fundamental scaling laws for both unstructured sensor networks (which use blind sequential search for querying) and structure...
Joon Ahn, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tag-based Web Photo Retrieval Improved by Batch Mode Re-Tagging
Web photos in social media sharing websites such as Flickr are generally accompanied by rich but noisy textual descriptions (tags, captions, categories, etc.). In this paper, we p...
Lin Chen, Dong Xu, Wai-Hung Tsang, Jiebo Luo
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
DARAW: a new write buffer to improve parallel I/O energy-efficiency
In the past decades, parallel I/O systems have been used widely to support scientific and commercial applications. New data centers today employ huge quantities of I/O systems, wh...
Xiaojun Ruan, Adam Manzanares, Kiranmai Bellam, Xi...
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Remote software protection by orthogonal client replacement
In a typical client-server scenario, a trusted server provides valuable services to a client, which runs remotely on an untrusted platform. Of the many security vulnerabilities th...
Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella, Mila Dalla Preda, ...