We examine the communication required for generating random variables remotely. One party Alice will be given a distribution D, and she has to send a message to Bob, who is then r...
Prahladh Harsha, Rahul Jain, David A. McAllester, ...
We discuss the use of lattice vector quantizers in conjunction with a quadtree-based sorting algorithm for the compression of multidimensional data sets, as encountered, for examp...
Alessandro J. S. Dutra, William A. Pearlman, Eduar...
The programming and retasking of sensor nodes could benefit greatly from the use of a virtual machine (VM) since byte code is compact, can be loaded on demand, and interpreted on...
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...
Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vija...
The success of Skype has inspired a generation of peer-topeer-based solutions for satisfactory real-time multimedia services over the Internet. However, fundamental questions, suc...