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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Data management for a smart earth: the Swiss NCCR-MICS initiative
The Swiss National Competence Center for Research in mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS or MICS) is one of several research initiatives sponsored by the Swiss...
Karl Aberer, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient and transparent dynamic content updates for mobile clients
We introduce a novel infrastructure supporting automatic updates for dynamic content browsing on resource constrained mobile devices. Currently, the client is forced to continuous...
Trevor Armstrong, Olivier Trescases, Cristiana Amz...
MOBIHOC
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bounds for the capacity of wireless multihop networks imposed by topology and demand
Existing work on the capacity of wireless networks predominantly considers homogeneous random networks with random work load. The most relevant bounds on the network capacity, e.g...
Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad, Rudolf H. Riedi
MOBIHOC
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Comparison of broadcasting techniques for mobile ad hoc networks
Network wide broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks provides important control and route establishment functionality for a number of unicast and multicast protocols. Considering i...
Brad Williams, Tracy Camp