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COORDINATION
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Enhanced Coordination in Sensor Networks through Flexible Service Provisioning
: Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks represent a challenging programming environment. Servilla addresses this by offering a new middleware framework that provides service provi...
Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Chenyang Lu
ICALP
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Bound on the Capacity of Backoff and Acknowledgement-Based Protocols
We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, , is at least 0.42 and that the capaci...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mark Jerrum, Sampath Kannan, ...
STOC
1994
ACM
168views Algorithms» more  STOC 1994»
13 years 12 months ago
Fast algorithms for finding randomized strategies in game trees
Interactions among agents can be conveniently described by game trees. In order to analyze a game, it is important to derive optimal (or equilibrium) strategies for the di erent p...
Daphne Koller, Nimrod Megiddo, Bernhard von Stenge...
SPAA
1990
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Low Overhead Parallel Schedules for Task Graphs
d Abstract) Richard J. Anderson Paul Beame Walter L. Ruzzo Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washingtoni We introduce a task scheduling model which is u...
Richard J. Anderson, Paul Beame, Walter L. Ruzzo
JUCS
2000
117views more  JUCS 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
The Light Control Case Study: Problem Description
: This document contains a range of needs and requirements concerning the construction of a light control system for a floor of a university building. A description of the building...
Stefan Queins, Gerhard Zimmermann, Martin Becker, ...