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ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
A Middleware Support for Agent-Based Application Mobility in Pervasive Environments
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
Yu Zhou, Jiannong Cao, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Joanna...
USENIX
2007
13 years 9 months ago
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, X...
ISBRA
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Consensus Tree Approach for Reconstructing Human Evolutionary History and Detecting Population Substructure
The random accumulation of variations in the human genome over time implicitly encodes a history of how human populations have arisen, dispersed, and intermixed since we emerged as...
Ming-Chi Tsai, Guy E. Blelloch, R. Ravi, Russell S...
JNW
2008
103views more  JNW 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Mobility Metrics Evaluation for Self-Adaptive Protocols
Cross-layer mechanism, for which a protocol locating at a given layer uses information issued from other layers, may enhance the mobile networks performance. Some of those mechanis...
Cholatip Yawut, Béatrice Paillassa, Riadh D...
ICC
2008
IEEE
135views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Using Soft-Line Recursive Response to Improve Query Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
— In large Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), each hop might incur varying delays due to medium access contention, transmission and computation delays. Fast and efficient query re...
Xiaoming Lu, Matt Spear, Karl N. Levitt, Norman S....