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TPDS
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
DAC: Distributed Asynchronous Cooperation for Wireless Relay Networks
—Cooperative relay is a communication paradigm that aims to realize the capacity of multi-antenna arrays in a distributed manner. However, the symbol-level synchronization requir...
Xinyu Zhang, Kang G. Shin
PROMISE
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting count spectra for Bayesian fault localization
Background: Automated diagnosis of software defects can drastically increase debugging efficiency, improving reliability and time-to-market. Current, low-cost, automatic fault dia...
Rui Abreu, Alberto González-Sanchez, Arjan ...
DCOSS
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors
We consider a mobile sensor network monitoring a spatio-temporal field. Given limited caches at the sensor nodes, the goal is to develop a distributed cache management algorithm to...
Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim ...
SIBGRAPI
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Plausible Image Based Soft Shadows Using Occlusion Textures
This paper presents a novel image-based approach to render plausible soft shadows for complex dynamic scenes with rectangular light sources. The algorithm's performance is mo...
Elmar Eisemann, Xavier Décoret