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SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Robust Audit Mechanism to Prevent Malicious Behaviors in Multi-robot Systems
Market-based mechanisms can be used to coordinate self-interested multi-robot systems in fully distributed environments, where by self-interested we mean that each robot agent att...
MyungJoo Ham, Gul A. Agha
SENSYS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Low-power clock synchronization using electromagnetic energy radiating from AC power lines
Clock synchronization is highly desirable in many sensor networking applications. It enables event ordering, coordinated actuation, energy-efficient communication and duty cyclin...
Anthony Rowe, Vikram Gupta, Ragunathan Rajkumar
RTSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Decentralized Utilization Control in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Many real-time systems must control their CPU utilizations in order to meet end-to-end deadlines and prevent overload. Utilization control is particularly challenging in distribut...
Xiaorui Wang, Dong Jia, Chenyang Lu, Xenofon D. Ko...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automating analysis of large-scale botnet probing events
Botnets dominate today's attack landscape. In this work we investigate ways to analyze collections of malicious probing traffic in order to understand the significance of lar...
Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, Vern Paxson
CASCON
1992
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13 years 5 months ago
Overview of multidatabase transaction management
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...