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TMC
2012
11 years 10 months ago
E-MiLi: Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening in Wireless Networks
WiFi interface is known to be a primary energy consumer in mobile devices, and idle listening (IL) is the dominant source of energy consumption in WiFi. Most existing protocols, s...
Xinyu Zhang, Kang G. Shin
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Paper plays a crucial role in many developing world information practices. However, paper-based records are inefficient, error-prone and difficult to aggregate. Therefore we need ...
Tapan S. Parikh, Edward D. Lazowska
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The CRUTIAL Architecture for Critical Information Infrastructures
Abstract. In this chapter we discuss the susceptibility of critical information infrastructures to computer-borne attacks and faults, mainly due to their largely computerized natur...
Paulo Veríssimo, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Migue...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
30 seconds is not enough!: a study of operating system timer usage
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
151views Hardware» more  ICCD 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Benchmarks and performance analysis of decimal floating-point applications
The IEEE P754 Draft Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic provides specifications for Decimal Floating-Point (DFP) formats and operations. Based on this standard, many developer...
Liang-Kai Wang, Charles Tsen, Michael J. Schulte, ...