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IPC
2007
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Design and Validation of a Low-Power Network Node for Pervasive Applications
Pervasive computing refers to making many computing devices available throughout the physical environment, while making them effectively invisible to the user. To further increase...
Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, ...
JACM
2002
107views more  JACM 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
Paradoxes in distributed decisions on optimal load balancing for networks of homogeneous computers
In completely symmetric systems that have homogeneous nodes (hosts, computers, or processors) with identical arrival processes, an optimal static load balancing scheme does not in...
Hisao Kameda, Odile Pourtallier
DIALM
2003
ACM
139views Algorithms» more  DIALM 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
dBBlue: low diameter and self-routing bluetooth scatternet
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation for singlehop Bluetooth based ad hoc networks, with minimal communication overhead. We adopt the well-known structure de B...
Wen-Zhan Song, Xiang-Yang Li, Yu Wang 0003, Weizha...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
139views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Paths to stardom: calibrating the potential of a peer-based data management system
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
Mihai Lupu, Beng Chin Ooi, Y. C. Tay
ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Context to Make You More Aware
The goal of our work is to help users make more informed choices about what physical activities they undertake. One example is to provide relevant information to help someone choo...
Adrienne H. Andrew, Yaw Anokwa, Karl Koscher, Jona...