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SENSYS
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Scalable data aggregation for dynamic events in sensor networks
Computing and maintaining network structures for efficient data aggregation incurs high overhead for dynamic events where the set of nodes sensing an event changes with time. Mor...
Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, Prasun Sinha
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SENSYS
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Sympathy for the sensor network debugger
Being embedded in the physical world, sensor networks present a wide range of bugs and misbehavior qualitatively different from those in most distributed systems. Unfortunately, d...
Nithya Ramanathan, Kevin K. Chang, Rahul Kapur, Le...
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
15 years 5 months ago
System noise, OS clock ticks, and fine-grained parallel applications
As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson, Scott...
LOCA
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Classifying the Mobility of Users and the Popularity of Access Points
Abstract. There is increasing interest in location-aware systems and applications. It is important for any designer of such systems and applications to understand the nature of use...
Minkyong Kim, David Kotz