Abstract--Two well-known problems that can cause performance degradations in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks are the exposednode (EN) and hidden-node (HN) problems. Although there ha...
— Wireless communications is now completely pervasive, and already is used in many guises by people in everyday life. However until now, the information exchanged has been mainly...
Sarah Brady, Brian Carson, Donal O'Gorman, Niall M...
Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unrank...
The peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications are becoming increasingly popular and account for more than 70% of the Internet's bandwidth usage. Measurement studies show th...
Abstract--We address the problem of highly transient populations in unstructured and loosely-structured peer-to-peer systems. We propose a number of illustrative query-related stra...