This paper presents a new carrier sensing mechanism called DVCS (Directional Virtual Carrier Sensing) for wireless communication using directional antennas. DVCS does not require ...
Mineo Takai, Jay Martin, Rajive Bagrodia, Aifeng R...
Abstract— Sensor networks are being increasingly deployed for collecting critical data in various applications. Once deployed, a sensor network may experience faults at the indiv...
Douglas Herbert, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Saurabh Bagchi, Z...
Software performance based on performance models can be applied at early phases of the software development cycle to characterize the quantitative behavior of software systems. We...
Existing software thread integration (STI) methods provide synchronous thread progress within integrated functions. For the remaining, non-integrated portions of the secondary (or...
Nagendra J. Kumar, Siddhartha Shivshankar, Alexand...
— A manufacturer producing several items keeps them into safety stocks (buffers) in order to supply an external stochastic demand without interruptions. We consider the classical...
Francesco Borrelli, Carmen Del Vecchio, Alessandra...