In ubiquitous environments an increasing number of sensors capture information on users and an increasing number of actuators present information to users. In this paper we presen...
Abstract--It is now well known that employing channel adaptive signaling in wireless communication systems can yield large improvements in almost any performance metric. Unfortunat...
David James Love, Robert W. Heath Jr., Vincent K. ...
Abstract— We consider the following problem of decentralized statistical inference: given i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution, estimate an arbitrary quantile subject to l...
We discuss the following problem: Given an integer shared secretly among n players and a prime number e, how can the players efficiently compute a sharing of e-1 mod . The most in...
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...