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OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
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, ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
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 ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
On-demand Video Streaming in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
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...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Energy-Aware Tag Anti-Collision Protocols for RFID Systems
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...
Vinod Namboodiri, Lixin Gao
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Enabling Energy-Efficient and Quality Localization Services
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...
Tsung-Han Lin, Polly Huang, Hao-Hua Chu, Hsing-Hau...