Currently the most accurate WLAN positioning systems are based on the fingerprinting approach, where a “radio map” is constructed by modeling how the signal strength measureme...
This paper presents a new challenge—verifying that a remote server is storing a file in a fault-tolerant manner, i.e., such that it can survive hard-drive failures. We describe...
Kevin D. Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Ari Juels, Alina...
Contact interval between moving vehicles is one of the key metrics in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), which is important to routing schemes and network capacity. In this work,...
Yong Li, Depeng Jin, Pan Hui, Li Su, Lieguang Zeng
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
—Many companies now routinely run massive data analysis jobs – expressed in some scripting language – on large clusters of low-end servers. Many analysis scripts are complex ...