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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
UpStream: motivating water conservation with low-cost water flow sensing and persuasive displays
Water is our most precious and most rapidly declining natural resource. We explore pervasive technology as an approach for promoting water conservation in public and private space...
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
DAC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On the costs and benefits of stochasticity in stream processing
With the end of clock-frequency scaling, parallelism has emerged as the key driver of chip-performance growth. Yet, several factors undermine efficient simultaneous use of onchip ...
Raj R. Nadakuditi, Igor L. Markov
PIMRC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Low-complexity admission control for distributed power-controlled networks with stochastic channels
This study addresses the general problem of efficient resource management in wireless networks with arbitrary timevarying topologies. Communication channels are assumed to generall...
Stepán Kucera, Bing Zhang
TMC
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Threshold-Based Media Streaming Optimization for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
The integration of different wireless access technologies combined with the huge characteristic diversity of supported services in next-generation wireless systems creates a real h...
Ahmed H. Zahran, Cormac J. Sreenan
CNSM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Gossip-based resource management for cloud environments
1 We address the problem of resource management for a large-scale cloud environment that hosts sites. Our contribution centers around outlining a distributed middleware architectur...
Fetahi Wuhib, Rolf Stadler, Mike Spreitzer