Abstract. The practical utility of optimization technologies is often impacted by factors that reflect how these tools are used in practice, including whether various real-world c...
William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Erik G. Boman,...
Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs), combined with modern interconnection technologies are commonly used to build cost-effective compute clusters. However, contention among processor...
Extensive empirical studies presented in this paper confirm that the quality of radio communication between low power sensor devices varies significantly with time and environme...
Shan Lin, Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, John A...
Several research efforts as well as deployments have chosen IEEE 802.11 as a low-cost, long-distance access technology to bridge the digital divide. In this paper, we consider the...
—Clock synchronization is an essential building block for many control mechanisms used in wireless networks, including frequency hopping, power management, and packet scheduling....