The development of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes has allowed for improved data transmission over a variety of communication media. Although Reed-Solomon decoding provides a powerful def...
Lilian Atieno, Jonathan Allen, Dennis Goeckel, Rus...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Scratchpads have been widely proposed as an alternative to caches for embedded systems. Advantages of scratchpads include reduced energy consumption in comparison to a cache and a...
We consider the energy consumed in radio transmission of a set of sensors forming a data gathering wireless network. Our objective is to enhance the lifetime of such networks by e...
Samar Agnihotri, Pavan Nuggehalli, H. S. Jamadagni
The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. Helping users query alternative “deep Web” sources in ...