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WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling IEEE 802.11 DCF System Dynamics
—Experiments show that IEEE 802.11 DCF system exhibits unstable behavior in the congestion onset load range where the system starts to become saturated. This phenomenon is not we...
Zhenzhen Cao, Ren Ping Liu, Xun Yang, Yang Xiao
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Lightweight Distributed Solution to Content Replication in Mobile Networks
Abstract—Performance and reliability of content access in mobile networks is conditioned jointly by the number and location of content replicas deployed at the network nodes. The...
C.-A. La, Pietro Michiardi, Claudio Casetti, Carla...
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
HC-BGP: A light-weight and flexible scheme for securing prefix ownership
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fundamental building block of the Internet infrastructure. However, due to the implicit trust assumption among networks, Internet routing re...
Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Y. C...
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Processor reliability enhancement through compiler-directed register file peak temperature reduction
Each semiconductor technology generation brings us closer to the imminent processor architecture heat wall, with all its associated adverse effects on system performance and reliab...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An efficient XOR-scheduling algorithm for erasure codes encoding
In large storage systems, it is crucial to protect data from loss due to failures. Erasure codes lay the foundation of this protection, enabling systems to reconstruct lost data w...
Jianqiang Luo, Lihao Xu, James S. Plank
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient resource management on template-based web servers
The most commonly used request processing model in multithreaded web servers is thread-per-request, in which an individual thread is bound to serve each web request. However, with...
Eli Courtwright, Chuan Yue, Haining Wang
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Evaluating the impact of Undetected Disk Errors in RAID systems
Despite the reliability of modern disks, recent studies have made it clear that a new class of faults, Undetected Disk Errors (UDEs) also known as silent data corruption events, b...
Eric Rozier, Wendy Belluomini, Veera Deenadhayalan...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Performance of a Cooperative Network Using Rate Adaptation and Cooperative Combining
—The performance of a cooperative network with Cooperative Maximal Ratio Combining (C-MRC) is analyzed. To this end, we propose a heuristic approximation to the total received SN...
Prasanna Kalansuriya, Madushanka Soysa, Chintha Te...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A MAC Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks with Bursty Traffic
L. Bernardo, H. Agua, M. Pereira, R. Oliveira, R. ...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Representation of Composite Fading and Shadowing Distributions by Using Mixtures of Gamma Distributions
Abstract—The Nakagami-lognormal distribution is the commonly used composite distribution for modeling multipath fading and shadowing. In this paper1 , simple and new form of dist...
Saman Atapattu, Chintha Tellambura, Hai Jiang