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2009
13 years 6 months ago
Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance
The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and min...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, ...
CROSSROADS
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Massive multiplayer human computation for fun, money, and survival
Crowdsourcing is an effective tool to solve hard tasks. By bringing 100,000s of people to work on simple tasks that only humans can do, we can go far beyond traditional models of ...
Lukas Biewald
MOBICOM
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Challenge: ultra-low-power energy-harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTs)
This paper presents the design challenges posed by a new class of ultra-low-power devices referred to as Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs). EnHANTs are small, fle...
Maria Gorlatova, Peter R. Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis...
MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) provide rapidly deployable and self-configuring network capacity required in many critical applications, e.g., battlefields, disaster relief and ...
Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
IJDSN
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
MicroRouting: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sparse Ad Hoc Networks
Mobile ad hoc networks are self-organizing networks that provide rapid network connectivity in infrastructureless environments. Most routing protocols designed for MANETs assume c...
Saumitra M. Das, Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu