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IEEESCC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Towards a SLA-based Approach to Handle Service Disruptions
Service-orientation enables cooperation between multiple organizations and has become a solution of choice to tackle the complexity of ubiquitous computing. The very nature of ubi...
Lionel Touseau, Didier Donsez, Walter Rudametkin
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
This paper introduces T-Lohi, a new class of distributed and energy-efficient media-access protocols (MAC) for underwater acoustic sensor networks (UWSN). MAC design for UWSN fac...
Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, John S. Heidemann
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Which Distributed Averaging Algorithm Should I Choose for my Sensor Network?
Average consensus and gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust algorithms for distributed information proc...
Patrick Denantes, Florence Bénézit, ...
ISCAS
2008
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
A novel flash analog-to-digital converter
—In this paper a new ADC architecture of flash type is proposed. This proposed N-bit flash ADC replaces the (2N -1)-toN encoder with two (2N/2 -1)-to-(N/2) encoders to accomplish...
Chia-Nan Yeh, Yen-Tai Lai
KBSE
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Random Test Run Length and Effectiveness
Abstract—A poorly understood but important factor in random testing is the selection of a maximum length for test runs. Given a limited time for testing, it is seldom clear wheth...
James H. Andrews, Alex Groce, Melissa Weston, Ru-G...