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2007
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15 years 3 months ago
Performance benchmarking of wireless Web servers
ct 8 The advent of mobile computers and wireless networks enables the deployment of wireless Web servers and clients in 9 short-lived ad hoc network environments, such as classroom...
Guangwei Bai, Kehinde Oladosu, Carey L. Williamson
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DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Eventual Leader Election with Weak Assumptions on Initial Knowledge, Communication Reliability, and Synchrony
This paper considers the eventual leader election problem in asynchronous message-passing systems where an arbitrary number t of processes can crash (t < n, where n is the tota...
Antonio Fernández, Ernesto Jiménez, ...
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ICDE
2009
IEEE
115views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Efficient Evaluation of Multiple Preference Queries
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
Leong Hou U, Nikos Mamoulis, Kyriakos Mouratidis
ICC
2009
IEEE
154views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Load Balancing vs. Distributed Rate Limiting: An Unifying Framework for Cloud Control
— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
Rade Stanojevic, Robert Shorten
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ATMOS
2007
129views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Solving a Real-World Train Unit Assignment Problem
We face a real-world train unit assignment problem for an operator running trains in a regional area. Given a set of timetabled train trips, each with a required number of passenge...
Valentina Cacchiani, Alberto Caprara, Paolo Toth