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CCS
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PPay: micropayments for peer-to-peer systems
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...
Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
First-price path auctions
We study first-price auction mechanisms for auctioning flow between given nodes in a graph. A first-price auction is any auction in which links on winning paths are paid their ...
Nicole Immorlica, David R. Karger, Evdokia Nikolov...
USENIX
1993
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting In-Kernel Data Paths to Improve I/O Throughput and CPU Availability
We present the motivation, design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a UNIX kernel mechanism capable of establishing fast in-kernel data pathways between I/O objects. ...
Kevin R. Fall, Joseph Pasquale
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 12 months ago
A prior-free revenue maximizing auction for secondary spectrum access
—Dynamic spectrum allocation has proven promising for mitigating the spectrum scarcity problem. In this model, primary users lease chunks of under-utilized spectrum to secondary ...
Ajay Gopinathan, Zongpeng Li
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 12 months ago
Contrabass: Concurrent transmissions without coordination for ad hoc networks
—A practical protocol jointly considering PHY and MAC for MIMO based concurrent transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks, called Contrabass, is presented. Concurrent transmissio...
Sungro Yoon, Injong Rhee, Bang Chul Jung, Babak Da...