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2006
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An efficient heuristic for selecting active nodes in wireless sensor networks
Energy saving is a paramount concern in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A strategy for energy saving is to cleverly manage the duty cycle of sensors, by dynamically activating di...
Flávia Coimbra Delicato, Fábio Prott...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Sidelobe Control in Collaborative Beamforming via Node Selection
Collaborative beamforming (CB) is a power efficient method for data communications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which aims at increasing the transmission range in the network...
Mohammed F. A. Ahmed, Sergiy A. Vorobyov
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Failure-Aware Construction and Reconfiguration of Distributed Virtual Machines for High Availability Computing
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Song Fu
PPOPP
1999
ACM
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Automatic Node Selection for High Performance Applications on Networks
A central problem in executing performance critical parallel and distributed applications on shared networks is the selection of computation nodes and communication paths for exec...
Jaspal Subhlok, Peter Lieu, Bruce Lowekamp
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica