Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...
BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem: content unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular c...
Modern network processors support high levels of parallelism in packet processing by supporting multiple threads that execute on a micro-engine. Threads switch context upon encoun...
R. Collins, Fernando Alegre, Xiaotong Zhuang, Sant...
We present a joint PHY/MAC architecture (DCC-MAC) for 802.15.4a-like networks based on PPM-UWB. Unlike traditional approaches it fully utilizes the specific nature of UWB to achie...
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Bozidar Radunovic...
Abstract--Sensing coverage is essential for most applications in wireless networks. In traditional coverage problem study, the disk coverage model has been widely applied because o...