—In this paper, we uncover the Bloom paradox in Bloom filters: sometimes, it is better to disregard the query results of Bloom filters, and in fact not to even query them, thus...
—Target counting in sensor-based surveillance systems is an interesting task that potentially could have many important applications in practice. In such a system, each sensor ou...
Dengyuan Wu, Dechang Chen, Kai Xing, Xiuzhen Cheng
– Maximizing consolidation ratio, the number of virtual machines (VMs) in a physical machine, without violating customers’ SLAs is an important goal in the cloud. We show that ...
—Current-generation cloud computing is offered with usage-based pricing, with no bandwidth capacity guarantees, which is however unappealing to bandwidth-intensive applications s...
—We study error estimating codes with the goal of establishing better bounds for the theoretical and empirical overhead of such schemes. We explore the idea of using sketch data ...