The performance of peer-to-peer file replication comes from its piece and peer selection strategies. Two such strategies have been introduced by the BitTorrent protocol: the rare...
Arnaud Legout, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Pietro Mich...
In this paper, we study energy conservation techniques for disk array-based network servers. First, we introduce a new conservation technique, called Popular Data Concentration (P...
The relative difference between two data values is of interest in a number of application domains including temporal and spatial applications, schema versioning, data warehousing...
John F. Roddick, Kathleen Hornsby, Denise de Vries
Many sensor network applications require that each node’s sensor stream be annotated with its physical location in some common coordinate system. Manual measurement and configu...
Nissanka B. Priyantha, Hari Balakrishnan, Erik D. ...
: Modern smartphones provide a high sophisticated camera and a high resolution display. Therefore, they can be used to enable various application scenarios for 1D and 2D barcode re...