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VTC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Solving the Coupon Collector's Problem for the Safety Beaconing in the IEEE 802.11p WAVE
—For the WAVE applications built on safety beacons, it is imperative that the neighboring vehicle information be collected as quickly and efficiently as possible. But the unreli...
Hyundoc Seo, Sangki Yun, Hyogon Kim
MOBICOM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Neighbor discovery in wireless networks and the coupon collector's problem
—Neighbor discovery1 is one of the first steps in the initialization of a wireless ad hoc network. In this paper, we design and analyze practical algorithms for neighbor discove...
Sudarshan Vasudevan, Donald F. Towsley, Dennis Goe...
REPLICATION
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Replicating for Performance: Case Studies
In this chapter we take a look at the application of replication techniques for building scalable distributed systems. Unlike using replication for attaining dependability, replica...
Maarten van Steen, Guillaume Pierre
CDC
2010
IEEE
123views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Implicit learning for explicit discount targeting in Online Social networks
Online Social networks are increasingly being seen as a means of obtaining awareness of user preferences. Such awareness could be used to target goods and services at them. We cons...
Srinivas Shakkottai, Lei Ying, Sankalp Sah
ASIACRYPT
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Spreading Alerts Quietly and the Subgroup Escape Problem
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
James Aspnes, Zoë Diamadi, Kristian Gjø...