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ISORC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Effective Multi-Capacity Resource Allocation in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Effective resource management for distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems is hard due to their unique characteristics, including (1) constraints in multiple resources and (2)...
Nilabja Roy, John S. Kinnebrew, Nishanth Shankaran...
ISDA
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Optimal Tuning of PI Speed Controller Using Nature Inspired Heuristics
This paper presents a comparative study of three popular, Evolutionary Algorithms (EA); Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE) ...
Millie Pant, Radha Thangaraj, Ajith Abraham
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Laser based intersection detection for reactive navigation in an underground mine
— In this paper we propose a new feature detection algorithm to enable junction recognition intended for high speed reactive navigation in tunnel like environments. We also prese...
Johan Larsson, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffio...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Wireless Medium Access via Adaptive Backoff: Delay and Loss Minimization
— We consider packet transmission scheduling at the MAC-layer via adaptive backoff algorithms that are favorable in terms of queue occupancies in a wireless network. General netw...
Gardar Hauksson, Murat Alanyali
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast and Distributed Computation of Schedules in Wireless Networks
—In a wireless network with node exclusive spectrum sharing, two popular schedules are maximum weight matching (MWM) schedule and maximum size matching (MSM) schedule. The former...
Supratim Deb, Karan Mangla, K. V. M. Naidu
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multihop Local Pooling for Distributed Throughput Maximization in Wireless Networks
Abstract—Efficient operation of wireless networks requires distributed routing and scheduling algorithms that take into account interference constraints. Recently, a few algorit...
Gil Zussman, Andrew Brzezinski, Eytan Modiano
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scalable and reliable communication for hardware transactional memory
In a hardware transactional memory system with lazy versioning and lazy conflict detection, the process of transaction commit can emerge as a bottleneck. This is especially true ...
Seth H. Pugsley, Manu Awasthi, Niti Madan, Naveen ...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dunn's cluster validity index as a contrast measure of VAT images
This paper addresses the relationship between the Visual Assessment of cluster Tendency (VAT) algorithm and Dunn’s cluster validity index. We present an analytical comparison in...
Timothy C. Havens, James C. Bezdek, James M. Kelle...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Challenges and Advances in Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
We identify the challenges that are special to parallel sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (PSpGEMM). We show that sparse algorithms are not as scalable as their dense counterpar...
Aydin Buluç, John R. Gilbert
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
p-Percent Coverage Schedule in Wireless Sensor Networks
—We investigate the p-percent coverage problem in this paper and propose two algorithms to prolong network lifetime based on the fact that for some applications full coverage is ...
Shan Gao, Xiaoming Wang, Yingshu Li