Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Abstract. The proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing devices has brought energy constraints into the limelight. Energy-conscious design is important at all levels of syste...
Ning An, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Anand Sivasubramania...
Large-grain synchronous dataflow graphs or multi-rate graphs have the distinct feature that the nodes of the dataflow graph fire at different rates. Such multi-rate large-grain dat...
Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Guang R. Gao, Palash Desai
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the capacity of multichannel slotted ALOHA networks subject to a userspecified deadline and a permissible probability of ex...
In the near future, we will see dramatic changes in computing and networking hardware. A large number of devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, even small household appliances) will become c...