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TWC
2008
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Service time analysis of a distributed medium access control scheme
Abstract--Distributed medium access control (MAC) is essential for a wireless network without a central controller. In previous work of the authors, a distributed MAC scheme has be...
Hai Jiang, Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang, H. Vincent Po...
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Multiuser Diversity for Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks
— Multiuser diversity refers to a type of diversity present across different users in a fading environment. This diversity can be exploited by scheduling transmissions so that us...
Xiangping Qin, Randall A. Berry
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CCGRID
2005
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Scaling NFSv4 with parallel file systems
Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
Dean Hildebrand, Peter Honeyman
ICC
2009
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Analysis, Insights and Generalization of a Fast Decentralized Relay Selection Mechanism
Relay selection for cooperative communications has attracted considerable research interest recently. While several criteria have been proposed for selecting one or more relays an...
Virag Shah, Neelesh B. Mehta, Raymond Yim
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SOUPS
2006
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Intentional access management: making access control usable for end-users
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
Xiang Cao, Lee Iverson