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CCGRID
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Application Resilience: Making Progress in Spite of Failure
Abstract—While measures such as raw compute performance and system capacity continue to be important factors for evaluating cluster performance, such issues as system reliability...
William M. Jones, John T. Daly, Nathan DeBardelebe...
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Chinese Generals Problem
Abstract—To achieve higher reliability, safety, and faulttolerance, many mission-critical detection and decision systems implement consensus algorithms that force the systems’ ...
Edwin Soedarmadji
DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Toward an understanding of the processing delay of peer-to-peer relay nodes
Abstract—Peer-to-peer relaying is commonly used in realtime applications to cope with NAT and firewall restrictions and provide better quality network paths. As relaying is not ...
Kuan-Ta Chen, Jing-Kai Lou
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Combining automated on-line segmentation and incremental clustering for whole body motions
Abstract— This paper describes a novel approach for incremental learning of human motion pattern primitives through on-line observation of human motion. The observed motion time ...
Dana Kulic, Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Construction of a Maximum-Lifetime Data Gathering Tree in Sensor Networks: NP-Completeness and Approximation Algorithm
Abstract—Energy efficiency is critical for wireless sensor networks. The data gathering process must be carefully designed to conserve energy and extend the network lifetime. Fo...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff