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MOBISYS
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum
We introduce a new technique for determining a mobile phone’s indoor location even when Wi-Fi infrastructure is unavailable or sparse. Our technique is based on a new ambient so...
Stephen P. Tarzia, Peter A. Dinda, Robert P. Dick,...
PPOPP
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
GRace: a low-overhead mechanism for detecting data races in GPU programs
In recent years, GPUs have emerged as an extremely cost-effective means for achieving high performance. Many application developers, including those with no prior parallel program...
Mai Zheng, Vignesh T. Ravi, Feng Qin, Gagan Agrawa...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
ViewSer: enabling large-scale remote user studies of web search examination and interaction
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
Dmitry Lagun, Eugene Agichtein
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
140views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
On the stability and optimality of universal swarms
Recent work on BitTorrent swarms has demonstrated that a bandwidth bottleneck at the seed can lead to the underutilization of the aggregate swarm capacity. Bandwidth underutilizat...
Xia Zhou, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&eacu...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
201views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Apache hadoop goes realtime at Facebook
Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. Apache HBase is a database-like layer built on Hadoop des...
Dhruba Borthakur, Jonathan Gray, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
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