Abstract. This paper evaluates the performance of two seminal rateless erasure codes, LT Codes and Online Codes. Their properties make them appropriate for coping with communicatio...
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Albert Angel, Chara Lontou, Dieter Pfoser, Alexand...
Programmers need mechanisms to store application specific data that persists multiple program runs. To accomplish this task, they usually have to deal with storage specific code...
: We present a new model for handling messages and state in a distributed application that we call Messages in Local Transactions (MLT). Under this model, messages and data are not...
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...