The effectiveness of anti-spam techniques is an important question: after all, spam has a real cost to legitimate users in terms of time and resources. The problem is how we deter...
Margaret Nielsen, Dane Bertram, Sampson Pun, John ...
Gossip algorithms for distributed computation are attractive due to their simplicity, distributed nature, and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, using standa...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Anand D. Sarwate, Martin J....
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have deļ¬...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...
The use of environmental energy is now emerging as a feasible energy source for embedded and wireless computing systems such as sensor networks where manual recharging or replacem...
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 ...