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IMC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The importance of being overheard: throughput gains in wireless mesh networks
A flurry of recent work has focused on the performance gains that may be achieved by leveraging the broadcast nature of the wireless channel. In particular, researchers have obse...
Mikhail Afanasyev, Alex C. Snoeren
HICSS
2005
IEEE
110views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A Trust-based Negotiation Mechanism for Decentralized Economic Scheduling
Abstract— This paper presents a decentralized negotiation protocol for cooperative economic scheduling in a supply chain environment. For this purpose we designed autonomous agen...
Tim Stockheim, Oliver Wendt, Michael Schwind
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Scheduling Non-Malleable Parallel Jobs with Individual Deadlines
We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
ICDE
2010
IEEE
246views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Admission Control Mechanisms for Continuous Queries in the Cloud
Abstract--Amazon, Google, and IBM now sell cloud computing services. We consider the setting of a for-profit business selling data stream monitoring/management services and we inve...
Alexandros Labrinidis, Christine Chung, Kirk Pruhs...
ACMICEC
2008
ACM
195views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
DRM domain authentication using electronic payment systems
This paper focuses on the problem of how to allow sharing of copyrighted content between a set of authorised devices and preventing unauthoried copying of content to other devices...
Imad M. Abbadi, Muntaha Alawneh