The IEEE 802.11x MAC protocol, the de facto standard for wireless LANs, includes a distributed coordination function (DCF) mode usable for ad hoc network architectures. The Transm...
This paper reports work to support dependability arguments about the future reliability of a product before there is direct empirical evidence. We develop a method for estimating ...
Existing distributed middleware technologies and Enterprise Application frameworks lack in support to service flexibility from both the developer’s and user’s point of view. ...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
It has been known for some time that the synapses of the CA1 pyramidal cells are surprisingly unreliable at signalling the arrival of single spikes to the postsynaptic neuron [2]. ...
A Federated Array of Bricks is a scalable distributed storage system composed from inexpensive storage bricks. It achieves high reliability with low cost by using erasure coding a...