Abstract--Some recent publications have proposed methodologies to assess the performance of multimedia services in introducing subjective estimate of the end-to-end quality of vari...
This paper considers the queueing performance of a system that transmits coded data over a time-varying erasure channel. In our model, the queue length and channel state together f...
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
In this paper we consider retransmission strategies for centralized cyclic polling-based systems over wireless channels subject to external interference. The considered strategies...
The maximization of a positive (semi)definite complex quadratic form over a finite alphabet is NP-hard and achieved through exhaustive search when the form has full rank. Howeve...