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SIGCOMM
1998
ACM
14 years 1 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
14 years 2 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
13 years 10 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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13 years 7 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
14 years 3 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