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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
RxIP: Monitoring the health of home wireless networks
Abstract—Deploying home access points (AP) is hard. Untrained users typically purchase, install, and configure a home AP with very little awareness of wireless signal coverage a...
Justin Manweiler, Peter Franklin, Romit Roy Choudh...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
The Bloom paradox: When not to use a Bloom filter?
—In this paper, we uncover the Bloom paradox in Bloom filters: sometimes, it is better to disregard the query results of Bloom filters, and in fact not to even query them, thus...
Ori Rottenstreich, Isaac Keslassy
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
A statistical approach for target counting in sensor-based surveillance systems
—Target counting in sensor-based surveillance systems is an interesting task that potentially could have many important applications in practice. In such a system, each sensor ou...
Dengyuan Wu, Dechang Chen, Kai Xing, Xiuzhen Cheng
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
SageShift: Managing SLAs for highly consolidated cloud
– Maximizing consolidation ratio, the number of virtual machines (VMs) in a physical machine, without violating customers’ SLAs is an important goal in the cloud. We show that ...
Orathai Sukwong, Akkarit Sangpetch, Hyong S. Kim
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
A theory of cloud bandwidth pricing for video-on-demand providers
—Current-generation cloud computing is offered with usage-based pricing, with no bandwidth capacity guarantees, which is however unappealing to bandwidth-intensive applications s...
Di Niu, Chen Feng, Baochun Li
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
A simpler and better design of error estimating coding
—We study error estimating codes with the goal of establishing better bounds for the theoretical and empirical overhead of such schemes. We explore the idea of using sketch data ...
Nan Hua, Ashwin Lall, Baochun Li, Jun Xu
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
A comparative study of architectural impact on BGP next-hop diversity
—Large ISPs have been growing rapidly in both the size and global connectivity. To scale with the sheer number of routers, many providers have replaced the flat full-mesh iBGP c...
Jong Han Park, Pei-chun Cheng, Shane Amante, Doria...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Maximizing throughput when achieving time fairness in multi-rate wireless LANs
Abstract—This paper focuses on designing a distributed medium access control algorithm that aims at achieving time fairness among contending stations and throughput maximization ...
Yuan Le, Liran Ma, Wei Cheng, Xiuzhen Cheng, Biao ...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Spectrum trading with insurance in cognitive radio networks
—Market based spectrum trading has been extensively studied to realize efficient spectrum utilization in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). In this paper, we utilize the concept o...
Haiming Jin, Gaofei Sun, Xinbing Wang, Qian Zhang
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
On the construction of data aggregation tree with minimum energy cost in wireless sensor networks: NP-completeness and approxima
—In many applications, it is a basic operation for the sink to periodically collect reports from all sensors. Since the data gathering process usually proceeds for many rounds, i...
Tung-Wei Kuo, Ming-Jer Tsai