— In fast-varying faded channels the transmission can be organized into frames where the channel estimation is mainly training-based. For fast-varying fading channels the trainin...
— Traditional Physical Carrier Sensing (PCS), which aims at eliminating hidden terminals in wireless networks, causes too many exposed terminals and deteriorates the throughput p...
The interest among a geographically distributed user base to mine massive collections of scientific data propels the need for efficient data dissemination solutions. An optimal dat...
We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
We define the class of single-parent heap systems, which rely on a singly-linked heap in order to model destructive updates on tree structures. This encoding has the advantage of ...