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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 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
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Multiple random walks to uncover short paths in power law networks
—Developing simple distributed algorithms to allow nodes to perform topology discovery and message routing using incomplete topological information is a problem of great interest...
Bruno F. Ribeiro, Prithwish Basu, Don Towsley
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Fair background data transfers of minimal delay impact
—In this paper we present a methodology for the design of congestion control protocols for background data transfers that have a minimal delay impact on short TCP transfers and c...
Costas Courcoubetis, Antonis Dimakis
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
On exploiting flow allocation with rate adaptation for green networking
Abstract—Network power consumption can be reduced considerably by adapting link data rates to their offered traffic loads. In this paper, we exploit how to leverage rate adaptat...
Jian Tang, Brendan Mumey, Yun Xing, Andy Johnson
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Secure top-k query processing via untrusted location-based service providers
Abstract—This paper considers a novel distributed system for collaborative location-based information generation and sharing which become increasingly popular due to the explosiv...
Rui Zhang 0007, Yanchao Zhang, Chi Zhang
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Experimental performance comparison of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant protocols for data centers
Abstract—In this paper, we implement and evaluate three different Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) state machine replication protocols for data centers: (1) BASIC: The classic solu...
Guanfeng Liang, Benjamin Sommer, Nitin H. Vaidya
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
DEAR: Delay-bounded Energy-constrained Adaptive Routing in wireless sensor networks
— Reliability and energy efficiency are critical issues in wireless sensor networks. In this work, we study Delay-bounded Energy-constrained Adaptive Routing (DEAR) problem with...
Shi Bai, Weiyi Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Jian Tang, Cho...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Proactive seeding for information cascades in cellular networks
—In today’s Internet, online social networks (OSNs) play an important role in informing users about content. At the same time, mobile devices provide ubiquitous access to this ...
Francesco Malandrino, Maciej Kurant, Athina Markop...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
BitTrickle: Defending against broadband and high-power reactive jamming attacks
—Reactive jamming is not only cost effective, but also hard to track and remove due to its intermittent jamming behaviors. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and Direct Seq...
Yao Liu, Peng Ning
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Harnessing Internet topological stability in Thorup-Zwick compact routing
—Thorup-Zwick (TZ) compact routing guarantees sublinear state growth with the size of the network by routing via landmarks and incurring some path stretch. It uses a pseudo-rando...
Stephen D. Strowes, Colin Perkins