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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Anycast-aware transport for content delivery networks
Anycast-based content delivery networks (CDNs) have many properties that make them ideal for the large scale distribution of content on the Internet. However, because routing chan...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Seungjoon Lee, Michael Rabinovic...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The SkyLoc Floor Localization System
When a mobile user dials 911, a key to arriving to the emergency scene promptly is knowing the location of the mobile user. This paper presents SkyLoc, a GSM fingerprinting-based ...
Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightowe...
MOBISYS
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The Lighthouse Location System for Smart Dust
Smart Dust sensor networks ? consisting of cubic millimeter scale sensor nodes capable of limited computation, sensing, and passive optical communication with a base station ? are...
Kay Römer
AICT
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
A Practical Characterization of 802.11 Access Points in Paris
Unlike other wireless technologies, the deployment of 802.11 networks is not limited to operators: access points can easily be installed by end-users for domestic use. This singul...
Guillaume Valadon, Florian Le Goff, Christophe Ber...