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AHSWN
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
A Framework for the Capacity Evaluation of Multihop Wireless Networks?
The specific challenges of multihop wireles networks lead to a strong research effort on efficient protocols design where the offered capacity is a key objective. More specifically...
Hervé Rivano, Fabrice Theoleyre, Fabrice Va...
UAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Bounds on the Bethe Free Energy for Gaussian Networks
We address the problem of computing approximate marginals in Gaussian probabilistic models by using mean field and fractional Bethe approximations. As an extension of Welling and ...
Botond Cseke, Tom Heskes
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
On the quantitative analysis of deep belief networks
Deep Belief Networks (DBN's) are generative models that contain many layers of hidden variables. Efficient greedy algorithms for learning and approximate inference have allow...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Iain Murray
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Brief announcement: collaborative measurement of upload speeds in P2P systems
We define and study the bandwidth determination problem in adhoc P2P environments. Using point-to-point bandwidth probes, the goal is to quickly determine each host's upload ...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Mobility on Gossip Algorithms
—We analyze how node mobility can influence the convergence time of averaging gossip algorithms on networks. Our main result is that even a small number of fully mobile nodes ca...
Anand D. Sarwate, Alexandros G. Dimakis