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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Stochastic approximation algorithm for optimal throughput performance of wireless LANs
In this paper, we consider the problem of throughput maximization in an infrastructure based WLAN. We demonstrate that most of the proposed protocols though perform optimally for ...
Sundaresan Krishnan, Prasanna Chaporkar
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
This is a quantitative study on the performance of 3G mobile data offloading through WiFi networks. We recruited about 100 iPhone users from a metropolitan area and collected stat...
Kyunghan Lee, Injong Rhee, Joohyun Lee, Yung Yi, S...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Improving peer-to-peer file distribution: winner doesn't have to take all
Recent work on BitTorrent has shown that the choke/unchoke mechanism implements an auction where each peer tries to induce other peers into "unchoking" it by uploading m...
Ben Leong, Youming Wang, Su Wen, Cristina Carbunar...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
How green is IP-telephony?
With constantly increasing costs of energy, we ask ourselves what we can say about the energy efficiency of existing VoIP systems. To answer that question, we gather information a...
Salman Abdul Baset, Joshua Reich, Jan Janak, Pavel...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
How internet concepts and technologies can help green and smarten the electrical grid
Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. The nextgeneration grid, often called the `smart grid,' will featur...
Srinivasan Keshav, Catherine Rosenberg
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Breathe to stay cool: adjusting cell sizes to reduce energy consumption
Reducing the energy consumption of a wireless cellular network is an important and urgent problem. This paper studies the effect of cell sizes on the energy consumed by the networ...
Sourjya Bhaumik, Girija J. Narlikar, Subhendu Chat...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
EyePhone: activating mobile phones with your eyes
As smartphones evolve researchers are studying new techniques to ease the human-mobile interaction. We propose EyePhone, a novel "hand-free" interfacing system capable o...
Emiliano Miluzzo, Tianyu Wang, Andrew T. Campbell
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Shipping to streaming: is this shift green?
Streaming movies over the Internet has become increasingly popular in recent years as an alternative to mailing DVDs to a customer. In this paper we investigate the environmental-...
Anand Seetharam, Manikandan Somasundaram, Donald F...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
PhoneNet: a phone-to-phone network for group communication within an administrative domain
Te-Yuan Huang, Kok-Kiong Yap, Ben Dodson, Monica S...