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PIMRC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Comparative performance evaluation of MAC protocols in ad hoc networks with bandwidth partitioning
—This paper considers the performance of the MAC protocols ALOHA and CSMA in wireless ad hoc networks, where the total system bandwidth may be divided into smaller subbands. In t...
Mariam Kaynia, Geir E. Øien, Nihar Jindal, ...
DEXA
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Improving Alternative Text Clustering Quality in the Avoiding Bias Task with Spectral and Flat Partition Algorithms
Abstract. The problems of finding alternative clusterings and avoiding bias have gained popularity over the last years. In this paper we put the focus on the quality of these alter...
M. Eduardo Ares, Javier Parapar, Alvaro Barreiro
WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Reducing Emergency Department overcrowding - five patient buffer concepts in comparison
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a common medical care issue in the United States and other developed nations. One major cause of ED crowding are holding patients waiting...
Erik Michael Wilhelm Kolb, Jordan Peck, Sebastian ...
CASES
2001
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Combined partitioning and data padding for scheduling multiple loop nests
With the widening performance gap between processors and main memory, efficient memory accessing behavior is necessary for good program performance. Loop partition is an effective...
Zhong Wang, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha, Xiaobo Hu
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
hFS: a hybrid file system prototype for improving small file and metadata performance
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Zhihui Zhang, Kanad Ghose