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GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
TCP-PCP: A Transport Control Protocol Based on the Prediction of Congestion Probability over Wired/Wireless Hybrid Networks
—Many of packet loss as a result of factors other than congestion impact the performance of TCP in wired/wirelss hybrid networks. Firstly, this paper proposes one concept of Cong...
Jin Ye, Jianxin Wang, Liang Rong, Weijia Jia
NIPS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Efficient Sampling for Gaussian Process Inference using Control Variables
Sampling functions in Gaussian process (GP) models is challenging because of the highly correlated posterior distribution. We describe an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algori...
Michalis Titsias, Neil D. Lawrence, Magnus Rattray
WCE
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Applying EM Algorithm for Segmentation of Textured Images
— Texture analysis plays an increasingly important role in computer vision. Since the textural properties of images appear to carry useful information for discrimination purposes...
K. Revathy, V. S. Roshni
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Data Estimation in Sensor Networks Using Physical and Statistical Methodologies
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are employed in many applications in order to collect data. One key challenge is to minimize energy consumption to prolong network lifetime. A sche...
Yingshu Li, Chunyu Ai, Wiwek P. Deshmukh, Yiwei Wu
PODS
2000
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...