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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Prioritized Repeated Eliminations Multiple Access: A Novel Protocol for Wireless Networks
—A new and simple MAC protocol is proposed. Each node transmits a burst with length sampled from a geometric distribution with parameter q followed by a carrier sense slot. A nod...
Greger Wikstrand, Thomas Nilsson, Mark S. Doughert...
ICPPW
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Parallel Scientific Applications on CMP Cluster Systems
Chip multiprocessors (CMP) are widely used for high performance computing. Further, these CMPs are being configured in a hierarchical manner to compose a node in a cluster system....
Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Charles W. Lively, S...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Accessibility-Based Resource Selection in Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Large-scale distributed systems provide an attractive scalable infrastructure for network applications. However, the loosely-coupled nature of this environment can make data acces...
Jinoh Kim, Abhishek Chandra, Jon B. Weissman
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Power-Cost-Effective Node Architecture for Light-Tree Routing in WDM Networks
—We present a novel cost-effective multicast capable optical cross connect (MC-OXC) node architecture which improves efficiency of optical power by constraining splitting to only...
G. M. Fernandez, David Larrabeiti, C. Vazquez, P. ...
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the achievable rates for the relay channels with generalized feedback
— In this paper, two different feedback configurations of the relay channel are investigated. Specifically, in our first configuration, the source node in a relay channel is ...
Jinhua Jiang, Yan Xin
CDC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Distributed calculation of linear functions in noisy networks via linear iterations
— Given a fixed network where each node has some given initial value, and under the constraint that each node receives noisy transmissions from its immediate neighbors, we provi...
Shreyas Sundaram, Christoforos N. Hadjicostis
AINA
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Parameterless Broadcasting in Static to Highly Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Actuator Networks
—In a broadcasting task, source node wants to send the same message to all the other nodes in the network. Existing solutions range from connected dominating set (CDS) based for ...
Adnan Afsar Khan, Ivan Stojmenovic, Nejib Zaguia
ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Link Reversal: How to Play Better to Work Less
Sensor networks, with their ad hoc deployments, node mobility, and wireless communication, pose serious challenges for developing provably correct and efficient applications. A po...
Bernadette Charron-Bost, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef ...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the tradeoff between playback delay and buffer space in streaming
We consider the following basic question: a source node wishes to stream an ordered sequence of packets to a collection of receivers, which are distributed among a number of clust...
Alix L. H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, Samir Khuller, Y...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Storage Management of Evolving Files in Delay Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks
— This work focuses on a class of distributed storage systems whose content may evolve over time. Each component or node of the storage system is mobile and the set of all nodes ...
Eitan Altaian, Philippe Nain, Jean-Claude Bermond