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MOBISYS
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Characterizing Mobility and Network Usage in a Corporate Wireless Local-Area Network
Wireless local-area networks are becoming increasingly popular. They are commonplace on university campuses and inside corporations, and they have started to appear in public area...
Magdalena Balazinska, Paul Castro
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Rendezvous design algorithms for wireless sensor networks with a mobile base station
Recent research shows that significant energy saving can be achieved in wireless sensor networks with a mobile base station that collects data from sensor nodes via short-range co...
Guoliang Xing, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia, Minming Li
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Balancing distance and lifetime in delay constrained ad hoc networks
This paper addresses the problem of optimizing the packet transmission schedule in an ad hoc network with end-toend delay constraints. The emphasis is to determine the proper rela...
Ben Liang, Min Dong
PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Parallelizing sequential applications on commodity hardware using a low-cost software transactional memory
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
211views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Climbing rough vertical surfaces with hierarchical directional adhesion
— Prior research in biology and mechanics has shown the importance of hierarchy to the performance of dry adhesive systems on rough surfaces. The gecko utilizes several levels of...
Alan T. Asbeck, Sanjay Dastoor, Aaron Parness, Lau...