This paper presents Virgil, an automatic access point discovery and selection system. Unlike existing systems that select access points based entirely on received signal strength,...
Anthony J. Nicholson, Yatin Chawathe, Mike Y. Chen...
Energy efficiency has become a critical issue for battery-driven computers. Significant work has been devoted to improving it through better software and hardware. However, the hu...
An ad hoc data format is any non-standard, semi-structured data format for which robust data processing tools are not available. In this paper, we present ANNE, a new kind of mark...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...