It is becoming increasingly common to construct databases from information automatically culled from many heterogeneous sources. For example, a research publication database can b...
Aron Culotta, Michael L. Wick, Robert Hall, Matthe...
Random data placement has recently emerged as an alternative to traditional data striping. From a performance perspective, it has been demonstrated to be an efficient and scalable...
Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
This paper presents MAUI, a system that enables fine-grained energy-aware offload of mobile code to the infrastructure. Previous approaches to these problems either relied heavily...
Recent years have witnessed the pilot deployments of audio or low-rate video wireless sensor networks for a class of mission-critical applications including search and rescue, sec...