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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
VUPoints: collaborative sensing and video recording through mobile phones
Mobile phones are becoming a convergent platform for sensing, computation, and communication. This paper envisions VUPoints, a collaborative sensing and video-recording system tha...
Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
16 years 7 days ago
Automatic nonblocking communication for partitioned global address space programs
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Resource allocation among agents with preferences induced by factored MDPs
Distributing scarce resources among agents in a way that maximizes the social welfare of the group is a computationally hard problem when the value of a resource bundle is not lin...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
138views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems
In this paper, we study the problem of utility maximization in P2P systems, in which aggregate application-specific utilities are maximized by running distributed algorithms on P2...
Minghua Chen, Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Ji...
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MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Spectrum auction framework for access allocation in cognitive radio networks
Cognitive radio networks are emerging as a promising technology for the efficient use of radio spectrum. In these networks, there are two categories of networks on different chann...
Gaurav S. Kasbekar, Saswati Sarkar