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SIGCOMM
1998
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data
—The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute bulk data to a large number of autonomous clients motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. ...
John W. Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher,...
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Towards a flexible, process-oriented IT architecture for an integrated healthcare network
Healthcare information systems play an important role in improving healthcare quality. As providing healthcare increasingly changes from isolated treatment episodes towards a cont...
Mario Beyer, Klaus Kuhn, Christian Meiler, Stefan ...
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 5 months ago
CSAA: A Distributed Ant Algorithm Framework for Constraint Satisfaction
In this paper the distributed Constraint Satisfaction Ant Algorithm (CSAA) framework is presented. It uses an ant-based system for the distributed solving of constraint satisfacti...
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet
TMC
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Distributed Relay-Assignment Protocols for Coverage Expansion in Cooperative Wireless Networks
—One important application of cooperative communications is to extend coverage area in wireless networks without increasing infrastructure. However, a crucial challenge in implem...
Ahmed K. Sadek, Zhu Han, K. J. Ray Liu
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Novel MAC Protocol for Cooperative Downloading in Vehicular Networks
—In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called VC-MAC that utilizes the concept of cooperative communication tailored for vehicular networks, especially for gateway downloadi...
Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang, Weijia Jia