For Web applications in which the database component is the bottleneck, scalability can be provided by a third-party Database Scalability Service Provider (DSSP) that caches appli...
Amit Manjhi, Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, ...
We are often interested to test whether a given cause has a given effect. If we cannot specify the nature of the factors involved, such tests are called model-free studies. There ...
Many information services in pervasive computing offer rich information, which is information that includes other types of information. For example, the information listed in a pe...
We provide a general framework for the analysis of the capacity scaling properties in mobile ad-hoc networks with heterogeneous nodes and spatial inhomogeneities. Existing analyti...
This paper addresses the problem of optimizing the packet transmission schedule in an ad hoc network with end-toend delay constraints. The emphasis is to determine the proper rela...