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Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Supporting fault tolerance in a data-intensive computing middleware
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Tekin Bicer, Wei Jiang, Gagan Agrawal
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
All Bits Are Not Equal - A Study of IEEE 802.11 Communication Bit Errors
—In IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems, techniques such as acknowledgement, retransmission, and transmission rate adaptation, are frame-level mechanisms designed for combati...
Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Bishwaranjan Bh...
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MOBIWAC
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
The sociable traveller: human travelling patterns in social-based mobility
Understanding how humans move is a key factor for the design and evaluation of networking protocols and mobility management solutions in mobile networks. This is particularly true...
Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Planet scale software updates
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...