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MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
FireWxNet: a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
POPL
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Lightweight asynchrony using parasitic threads
Message-passing is an attractive thread coordination mechanism because it cleanly delineates points in an execution when threads communicate, and unifies synchronization and comm...
K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Lukasz Ziarek, Raghavendra...
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using geo-spatial session tagging for smart multicast session discovery
IP multicast is increasingly seen as efficient mode of live content distribution in the Internet to significantly large subscriber bases. Despite its numerous benefits over IP u...
Piyush Harsh, Richard Newman
SENSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Canopy closure estimates with GreenOrbs: sustainable sensing in the forest
Motivated by the needs of precise forest inventory and realtime surveillance for ecosystem management, in this paper we present GreenOrbs [1], a wireless sensor network system and...
Lufeng Mo, Yuan He, Yunhao Liu, Jizhong Zhao, Shao...
HPDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
StoreGPU: exploiting graphics processing units to accelerate distributed storage systems
Today Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a largely underexploited resource on existing desktops and a possible costeffective enhancement to high-performance systems. To date, mo...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santo...