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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
FPGA
2011
ACM
393views FPGA» more  FPGA 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Comparing FPGA vs. custom cmos and the impact on processor microarchitecture
As soft processors are increasingly used in diverse applications, there is a need to evolve their microarchitectures in a way that suits the FPGA implementation substrate. This pa...
Henry Wong, Vaughn Betz, Jonathan Rose
IPSN
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Localising speech, footsteps and other sounds using resource-constrained devices
While a number of acoustic localisation systems have been proposed over the last few decades, these have typically either relied on expensive dedicated microphone arrays and works...
Yukang Guo, Mike Hazas
IPSN
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Is there light at the ends of the tunnel? Wireless sensor networks for adaptive lighting in road tunnels
Existing deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are often conceived as stand-alone monitoring tools. In this paper, we report instead on a deployment where the WSN is a ke...
Matteo Ceriotti, Michele Corrà, Leandro D'O...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Workload-aware database monitoring and consolidation
In most enterprises, databases are deployed on dedicated database servers. Often, these servers are underutilized much of the time. For example, in traces from almost 200 producti...
Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel Madden, Har...