Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...
Being increasingly equipped with highly-accurate positioning technologies, today's mobile phones enable their owners to transmit their current position over the cellular netwo...
Multicasting, as an operational paradigm, has not been widely adopted until now, in spite of the advantages of its lower resource utilization and bandwidth conservation. This is d...
Simple Integrated Media Access (SIMA) is a differentiated service scheme based on drop preference bits in every packet. The basic idea of the SIMA is to maximize the exploitation ...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have received considerable attention in recent years and opened up new possibilities for various commercial and industrial applications. A WSN cons...