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2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs
As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...
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GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Improvement of WLAN QoS Capability via Statistical Multiplexing
Abstract— This paper presents an analytical model for evaluating the capability of wireless LANs (WLANs) to provision quantitative quality of service (QoS) guarantees. We conside...
Yu Cheng, Lin Cai, Xinhua Ling, Wei Song, Weihua Z...
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GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Multi-Copy Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
— Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMANs) are mobile networks in which complete source-todestination paths do not exist most of the time because of their sparse ...
Zhuoqun Li, Lingfen Sun, Emmanuel C. Ifeachor
IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler
ICAS
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ICAS 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Predicting Resource Demand in Dynamic Utility Computing Environments
— We target the problem of predicting resource usage in situations where the modeling data is scarce, non-stationary, or expensive to obtain. This scenario occurs frequently in c...
Artur Andrzejak, Sven Graupner, Stefan Plantikow