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STOC
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
CSP gaps and reductions in the lasserre hierarchy
We study integrality gaps for SDP relaxations of constraint satisfaction problems, in the hierarchy of SDPs defined by Lasserre. Schoenebeck [25] recently showed the first integra...
Madhur Tulsiani
ICC
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Distributed Multicast Routing using Network Coding
—Multicast is an important communication paradigm, also a problem well known for its difficulty (NP-completeness) to achieve certain optimization goals, such as minimum network ...
Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, Klara Nahrstedt
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Multi-Class QoS in 802.11 Networks Using Gentle Decrease of Multiple Contention Windows
—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
Bushra Anjum, Zartash Afzal Uzmi
AAAI
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Physical Search Problems Applying Economic Search Models
This paper considers the problem of an agent searching for a resource or a tangible good in a physical environment, where at each stage of its search it observes one source where ...
Yonatan Aumann, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus, David Sar...
CN
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Performance evaluation of MAC transmission power control in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we provide a method to analytically compute the energy saving provided by the use of transmission power control (TPC) at the MAC layer in wireless sensor networks (W...
Javier Vales-Alonso, Esteban Egea-López, Al...