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AINA
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Towards a Usenet-Like Discussion System for Users of Disconnected MANETs
Applications that rely on the publish-subscribe model (such as those dedicated to news or event distribution) require a communication model whereby information can flow towards a...
Julien Haillot, Frédéric Guidec
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting FM radio data system for adaptive clock calibration in sensor networks
Clock synchronization is critical for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to the need of inter-node coordination and collaborative information processing. Although many message pa...
Liqun Li, Guoliang Xing, Limin Sun, Wei Huangfu, R...
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
In search of an anonymous and secure lookup: attacks on structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems
The ability to locate random relays is a key challenge for peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems. Earlier attempts like Salsa and AP3 used distributed hash table look...
Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov
ESWS
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas