Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
Background: One of the difficulties in mapping biomedical named entities, e.g. genes, proteins, chemicals and diseases, to their concept identifiers stems from the potential varia...
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiado...
Sensor replacement is important for sensor networks to provide continuous sensing services. Upon sensor node failures, holes (uncovered areas) may appear in the sensing coverage. ...
Yongguo Mei, Changjiu Xian, Saumitra M. Das, Y. Ch...
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...
In these years, the security problem becomes more important to everyone using computers. However, vulnerabilities on computers are found so frequently that system managers can not...