Many people who have tried to configure their IEEE 802.11 enabled mobile phones to connect to a public wireless hotspot know one of the major differences between IEEE 802.11 netwo...
Abstract Peer-to-peer markets going mobile spur spontaneity in trading considerably. Spontaneity, however, imposes severe informational requirements on the market participants. Inf...
Until a decade ago, the concept of phased array beamforming was mainly implemented with mechanical or analog solutions. Today, digital hardware has become powerful enough to perfor...
Marcel D. van de Burgwal, Kenneth C. Rovers, Koen ...
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...