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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Secondary Market for Spectrum
—Dynamic spectrum trading amongst small cognitive users is fundamentally different along two axes: temporal variation, and spatial variation of user demand and channel condition....
Hong Xu, Jin Jin, Baochun Li
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal SINR-based Random Access
— Random access protocols, such as Aloha, are commonly modeled in wireless ad-hoc networks by using the protocol model. However, it is well-known that the protocol model is not a...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent W. S. Wong, Robe...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
PeopleRank: Social Opportunistic Forwarding
— In opportunistic networks, end-to-end paths between two communicating nodes are rarely available. In such situations, the nodes might still copy and forward messages to nodes t...
Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Martin May, Christophe Diot, M...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Metrics for Evaluating Video Streaming Quality in Lossy IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
—Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) is the simplest and the most widely used video quality evaluation methodology. However, traditional PSNR calculations do not take the packet lo...
An Chan, Kai Zeng, Prasant Mohapatra, Sung-Ju Lee,...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On Channel-Discontinuity-Constraint Routing in Wireless Networks
Multi-channel wireless networks are increasingly being employed as infrastructure networks, e.g. in metro areas. Nodes in these networks frequently employ directional antennas to ...
Swaminathan Sankararaman, Alon Efrat, Srinivasan R...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Flow Control for Cost-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Streaming
Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Laurent Massoulié
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Change Management in Enterprise IT Systems: Process Modeling and Capacity-optimal Scheduling
Abstract—We provide a formal model for the Change Management process for Enterprise IT systems, and develop change scheduling algorithms that seek to attain the “change capacit...
Praveen Kumar Muthuswamy, Koushik Kar, Sambit Sahu...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Delay Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks with Random Access: A Fluid Queue View
Abstract—We consider a cognitive radio network where multiple secondary users (SUs) contend for spectrum usage, using random access, over available primary user (PU) channels. Ou...
Shanshan Wang, Junshan Zhang, Lang Tong
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Balanced Consistency Maintenance Protocol for Structured P2P Systems
—A fundamental challenge of managing mutable data replication in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system is how to efficiently maintain consistency under various sharing patterns with heter...
Yi Hu, Min Feng, Laxmi N. Bhuyan
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Price of Anarchy in Non-Cooperative Load Balancing
We investigate the price of anarchy of a load balancing game with K dispatchers. The service rates and holding costs are assumed to depend on the server, and the service disciplin...
Urtzi Ayesta, Olivier Brun, Balakrishna Prabhu