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HPDC
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Understanding the effects and implications of compute node related failures in hadoop
Hadoop has become a critical component in today’s cloud environment. Ensuring good performance for Hadoop is paramount for the wide-range of applications built on top of it. In ...
Florin Dinu, T. S. Eugene Ng
SIGMETRICS
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Temperature management in data centers: why some (might) like it hot
The energy consumed by data centers is starting to make up a significant fraction of the world’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. A large fraction of the consumed energ...
Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan A. Stefanovici, George Amvr...
KDD
2012
ACM
190views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
The untold story of the clones: content-agnostic factors that impact YouTube video popularity
Video dissemination through sites such as YouTube can have widespread impacts on opinions, thoughts, and cultures. Not all videos will reach the same popularity and have the same ...
Youmna Borghol, Sebastien Ardon, Niklas Carlsson, ...
MOBICOM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
AutoMAC: rateless wireless concurrent medium access
Current wireless network design is built on the ethos of avoiding interference. In this paper we question this long-held design principle. We show that with appropriate design, su...
Aditya Gudipati, Stephanie Pereira, Sachin Katti
MOBICOM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Faster GPS via the sparse fourier transform
GPS is one of the most widely used wireless systems. A GPS receiver has to lock on the satellite signals to calculate its position. The process of locking on the satellites is qui...
Haitham Hassanieh, Fadel Adib, Dina Katabi, Piotr ...
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Flashback: decoupled lightweight wireless control
Unlike their cellular counterparts, Wi-Fi networks do not have the luxury of a dedicated control plane that is decoupled from the data plane. Consequently, Wi-Fi struggles to prov...
Asaf Cidon, Kanthi Nagaraj, Sachin Katti, Pramod V...
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Picasso: flexible RF and spectrum slicing
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Picasso, a novel radio design that allows simultaneous transmission and reception on separate and arbitrary spectr...
Steven Siying Hong, Jeffrey Mehlman, Sachin Rajsek...
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
CarSpeak: a content-centric network for autonomous driving
This paper introduces CarSpeak, a communication system for autonomous driving. CarSpeak enables a car to query and access sensory information captured by other cars in a manner si...
Swarun Kumar, Lixin Shi, Nabeel Ahmed, Stephanie G...
ICONFERENCE
2012
12 years 7 months ago
Rural anchor institution broadband connectivity: enablers and barriers to adoption
This paper presents findings from two research projects that entail needs assessments, benchmarking, and onsite diagnostics of anchor institutions in support of multi-million doll...
Lauren H. Mandel, Nicole D. Alemanne, Charles R. M...
EMSOFT
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
RT-Xen: towards real-time hypervisor scheduling in xen
As system integration becomes an increasingly important challenge for complex real-time systems, there has been a significant demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualiz...
Sisu Xi, Justin Wilson, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D...