MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Providing on-demand video streaming services to large numbers of nodes in mobile wireless networks is a challenging task. We propose MOVi (Mobile Opportunistic Video-on-demand), a...
Hayoung Yoon, JongWon Kim, Feiselia Tan, Robert Hs...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...
Recent localization research has focused on improving the accuracy of pinpointing the physical location of a target. We think that the energy efficiency and the quality of the loc...