Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Optimistically replicated systems provide highly available data even when communication between data replicas is unreliable or unavailable. The high availability comes at the cost...
—Energy consumption is a critical parameter in wireless healthcare systems which consist of battery operated devices such as sensors and local aggregators. The system battery lif...
Abstract-- We propose a framework for decentralized path selection and on-demand wavelength channel provisioning in WDM networks with routing constraints. Within this framework, th...
—Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications has emerged as a promising technology for high data rate wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Several proposals for UWB-based WPANs have ...