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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
SPAA
2005
ACM
16 years 8 days ago
Constant density spanners for wireless ad-hoc networks
An important problem for wireless ad hoc networks has been to design overlay networks that allow time- and energy-efficient routing. Many local-control strategies for maintaining...
Kishore Kothapalli, Christian Scheideler, Melih On...
MSWIM
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Markov-based modeling of wireless local area networks
Errors introduced by a wireless medium are more frequent and profound than contemporary wired media. Some of these errors, which are not corrected by the physical layer, result in...
Syed A. Khayam, Hayder Radha
USENIX
1996
15 years 8 months ago
Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations
This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...
Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Wifi-reports: improving wireless network selection with collaboration
Wi-Fi clients can obtain much better performance at some commercial hotspots than at others. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for users to determine which hotspot access p...
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Da...