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CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of progressive image loading schemes
Although network bandwidth has increased dramatically, high-resolution images often take several seconds to load, and considerably longer on mobile devices over wireless connectio...
Chris Harrison, Anind K. Dey, Scott E. Hudson
HICSS
2009
IEEE
106views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
A Radical Approach to Network-on-Chip Operating Systems
Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...
Michael Engel, Olaf Spinczyk
ICC
2009
IEEE
162views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Minimizing Energy Consumption in IR-UWB Based Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract—Impulse Radio Ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) communication has proven an important technique for supporting highrate, short-range, low-power communication. These are necessary ...
Tianqi Wang, Wendi B. Heinzelman, Alireza Seyedi
WWIC
2009
Springer
109views Communications» more  WWIC 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
On Prolonging Sensornode Gateway Lifetime by Adapting Its Duty Cycle
In this paper we discuss the lifetime of an battery powered device which acts as a gateway between a wireless sensor network and a standard network. The wireless communication stan...
Marcin Brzozowski, Peter Langendoerfer