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DCOSS
2008
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Local PTAS for Independent Set and Vertex Cover in Location Aware Unit Disk Graphs
We present the first local approximation schemes for maximum independent set and minimum vertex cover in unit disk graphs. In the graph model we assume that each node knows its geo...
Andreas Wiese, Evangelos Kranakis
ICPADS
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
One-Phase Commit: Does it make Sense?
1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the abs...
Maha Abdallah, Rachid Guerraoui, Philippe Pucheral
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Functional Monitoring without Monotonicity
The notion of distributed functional monitoring was recently introduced by Cormode, Muthukrishnan and Yi [CMY08] to initiate a formal study of the communication cost of certain fu...
Chrisil Arackaparambil, Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrab...
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Ad Hoc Network Infrastructure: Communication and Information Sharing for Emergency Response
— During an emergency response, access to a reliable communication infrastructure is required to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Various communication technolog...
Raheleh B. Dilmaghani, Ramesh R. Rao
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Listen to me if you can: tracking user experience of mobile network on social media
Social media sites such as Twitter continue to grow at a fast pace. People of all generations use social media to exchange messages and share experiences of their life in a timely...
Tongqing Qiu, Junlan Feng, Zihui Ge, Jia Wang, Jun...