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PRDC
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Availability and Performance Evaluation for Automatic Protection Switching in TDMA Wireless System
In this paper, we compare the availability and performance of a wireless TDMA system with and without automatic protection switching. Stochastic reward net models are constructed ...
Hairong Sun, Yonghuan Cao, Kishor S. Trivedi, Jame...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Sharing Random Bits with No Process Coordination
We present a method by which any polynomial-time randomized distributed algorithm is transformed in such way that each participating process needs only polylog local random bits a...
Marius Zimand
FOCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Simple Constructions of Almost k-Wise Independent Random Variables
We present three alternative simple constructions of small probability spaces on n bits for which any k bits are almost independent. The number of bits used to specify a point in ...
Noga Alon, Oded Goldreich, Johan Håstad, Ren...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Selection of Repetition Codes for MAC in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
—In the context of vehicular safety and entertainment applications, we focus on the design of a reliable medium access control scheme. Each vehicle is willing to form a network a...
Ali Honarvar, Shahrokh Valaee
APNOMS
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Improving Handoff Performance by Using Distance-Based Dynamic Hysteresis Value
Abstract. In this study, an adaptive handoff algorithm with a dynamic hysteresis value, based on the distance between the mobile station and the serving base station, is proposed f...
Huamin Zhu, Kyung Sup Kwak