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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Distributing private data in challenged network environments
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
Azarias Reda, Brian D. Noble, Yidnekachew Haile
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Sensor-Aided Overlay Deployment and Relocation for Vast-Scale Sensor Networks
—The overlay-based network architecture has been recognized as an effective way to deal with the funneling effect in sensor networks, where sensors closer to the sink are usually...
Guanqun Yang, Bin Tong, Daji Qiao, Wensheng Zhang
P2P
2008
IEEE
102views Communications» more  P2P 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Free-Riding, Fairness, and Firewalls in P2P File-Sharing
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algor...
Jacob Jan-David Mol, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J....
HPCN
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
PARAFLOW: A Dataflow Distributed Data-Computing System
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Roy Williams, Bruce Sears
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Complexity of terminating preference elicitation
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
Toby Walsh