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2005
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
WALRUS: wireless acoustic location with room-level resolution using ultrasound
In this paper, we propose a system that uses the wireless networking and microphone interfaces of mobile devices to determine location to room-level accuracy. The wireless network...
Gaetano Borriello, Alan L. Liu, Tony Offer, Christ...
INFOCOM
1997
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Server Selection Using Dynamic Path Characterization in Wide-Area Networks
Replication is a commonly proposed solution to problems of scale associated with distributed services. However, when a service is replicated, each client must be assigned a server...
Robert L. Carter, Mark Crovella
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ICIA
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Improving Intelligent Assistants for Desktop Activities
Tasks have been identified as playing an important role to knowledge workers as high-level units for organizing their information. TaskTracer is a task-aware desktop system that l...
Simone Stumpf, Margaret M. Burnett, Thomas G. Diet...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A trace-driven emulation framework to predict scalability of large clusters in presence of OS Jitter
—Various studies have pointed out the debilitating effects of OS Jitter on the performance of parallel applications on large clusters such as the ASCI Purple and the Mare Nostrum...
Pradipta De, Ravi Kothari, Vijay Mann
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Token tenure: PATCHing token counting using directory-based cache coherence
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
Arun Raghavan, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin