In Java programs, classes are coupled to each other through the use of typed references. In order to minimize coupling without changing the executed code, interfaces can be introd...
This paper introduces the MTree index algorithm, a special purpose XML XPath index designed to meet the needs of the hierarchical XPath query language. With the increasing importa...
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...
Consider a network in which a collection of source nodes maintain and periodically update data objects for a collection of sink nodes, each of which periodically accesses the data...
R. C. Chakinala, Abishek Kumarasubramanian, Kofi A...
Recently there is an increasing interest in using directional antennas and multi-channel for Ad-hoc wireless networks. Directional antennas provide higher capacity and less multi-...