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FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
CTU: Capturing Throughput Dependencies in UWB Networks
—The inherent channel characteristics of impulse-based UWB networks affect the MAC layer performance significantly. Previous studies on evaluating MAC protocols are based on pro...
Ioannis Broustis, Aggelos Vlavianos, Prashant Kris...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Modeling and predicting application performance on parallel computers using HPC challenge benchmarks
A method is presented for modeling application performance on parallel computers in terms of the performance of microkernels from the HPC Challenge benchmarks. Specifically, the a...
Wayne Pfeiffer, Nicholas J. Wright
LCN
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
WBest: A bandwidth estimation tool for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
—Bandwidth estimation techniques seek to provide an accurate estimation of available bandwidth such that network applications can adjust their behavior accordingly. However, most...
Mingzhe Li, Mark Claypool, Robert E. Kinicki
NOMS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Model-based management of security services in complex network environments
Abstract—The security mechanisms employed in current networked environments are increasingly complex, and their configuration management has an important role for the protection...
João Porto de Albuquerque, Heiko Krumm, Pau...