—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
While many application service providers have proposed using thin-client computing to deliver computational services over the Internet, little work has been done to evaluate the e...
Abstract—Nowadays companies increasingly aggregate location data from different sources on the Internet to offer locationbased services such as estimating current road traffic c...
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
The World-Wide Web consists not only of informational, but also computational resources. However, these resources, especially computational ones are underutilized. One characteris...