IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
A quantitative study has shown that frame technology [1] supported by Fusion toolset can lead to reduction in time-tomarket (70%) and project costs (84%). Frame technology has bee...
Tak Wong, Stan Jarzabek, Soe Myat Swe, Ru Shen, Ho...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
The locality of the data in parallel programs is known to have a strong impact on the performance of distributed-memory multiprocessor systems. The worse the locality in access pa...
Xinmin Tian, Shashank S. Nemawarkar, Guang R. Gao,...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...