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To Franchise Or Not To Franchise?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For a company pondering the question, "To franchise or not to franchise?" new research from Michigan's Ross School of Business suggests that performance differences between corporate-owned and...
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Closing Deals And Closing Incisions
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For surgeon Jafar Hasan, MBA '06, the term "closing" took on new meaning recently when he secured funding to commercialize his own medical invention. Surgimatix is the decidedly catchy name of a...
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Moving Beyond The Moving Anecdote
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For years, groups working on poverty-fighting ventures have used stories, anecdotes, and milestone markers to highlight their work and secure funding. Unfortunately, these things don't actually...
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And In This Corner, Google
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Google fired another salvo in its ongoing battle with Microsoft recently when it announced plans to offer an operating system based on its Chrome software. The two giants already face off in the...
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Anatomy Of A Loyal Customer
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Heads, hearts, and hands: All play a unique role when it comes to brand loyalty and consumers. "Head loyals" exhibit different behavior in the marketplace than "Heart loyals" or "Hand loyals," and...
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Hedge Fund Manager's Alma Mater Matters
August 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Hedge fund investors seeking superior performance are well-advised to select younger, well-educated fund managers who are highly devoted to their jobs, says a University of Michigan business...
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More Competitors = Less Competition
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
In a forthcoming research paper in Psychological Science, a series of studies by Stephen Garcia, adjunct assistant professor of management and organizations and assistant professor of psychology...
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New Game Strategies To Create And Capture Value
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In his book Strategic Innovation (Routledge, 2009), professor Allan Afuah demonstrates the value of "New game" strategies in the face of rapid technological change and increasing globalization....
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How To Display Competence In Times Of Crisis
August 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, U.S. newspapers and television have featured some company in crisis almost daily. The crises have ranged from corporate fraud to allegations of widespread sexual harassment or...
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The Services Shift: Seizing The Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
February 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
In their new book, The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity (FT Press), authors Robert Kennedy and Ajay Sharma explore ways that outsourcing and offshoring are now impacting...
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The Distribution Of Income Tax Noncompliance
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors use the newly available data from the IRS's most recent comprehensive study of individual income tax noncompliance, the National Research Program, to assess the...
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Bad Loans, Suffering Banks
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Investors and regulators continue to sort out the mess from the subprime mortgage meltdown that helped freeze credit markets and shrink the economy. The true health of some banks is still in...
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Rethink HR Strategy From The Outside In
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It comes as no surprise that the best performing companies identify and focus on activities that add the greatest value to customers and shareholders. Thus, every department in a company adds...
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Recession 101: Marketing Dos and Don'ts
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It's been well-documented that companies that increase or maintain their marketing level during periods of recession end up in a better position in the end, so cutting the marketing budget should...
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Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
Judgment is the essence of leadership. Whether it's CEOs, politicians, coaches or generals, the quality of a leader's judgment determines the fate of an entire organization. A new book, "Judgment:...
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Emerging From The Economic Abyss
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Keeping up with the current economic crisis and its daily twists and turns can be a bit daunting. But three of the Ross School's thought leaders recently offered Executive MBA alumni some clarity...
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I Think, Therefore I Judge
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Krishna and colleagues Rongrong Zhou, of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Shi Zhang, of UCLA Anderson School of Management, designed a series of experiments to test...
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Latin America: Land Of Opportunity
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Latin America remains a healthy economic region despite ongoing market turmoil in the U.S. It has an appetite for people who can lead by example, influence a diverse group of customers and...
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Mixed Backgrounds Improve Organizational Innovation, Creativity
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Like Barack Obama and millions of Americans, Ross School professor Fiona Lee comes from a mixed cultural background. She is an Asian American who was born in Europe, grew up in Hong Kong and...
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When Firms Go Private: Signs Are Obvious
September 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many factors that drive public companies to go private are evident throughout their public life - even at their Initial Public Offering (IPO), say researchers at the University of Michigan's Ross...
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Open-Bid Auctions Offer The Best Of Both Worlds
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
More business-to-consumer firms seek to boost their total revenues by selling the same or nearly identical products online using auctions (such as those offered on eBay) and fixed prices (posted...
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(Fear Of) Failure Is Not An Option
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
NBA Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is immune to the fear of failure. It's a condition he acquired playing in more than a thousand regular-season games with the Detroit Pistons. And it's a quality that...
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Women On Board: Does Forced Diversity Hurt Firm Performance?
February 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
New SEC rules will require public firms to disclose what role, if any, diversity plays in appointing members to their corporate boards, but Ross School researchers say any forced restructuring of...
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Optimistic Americans Overcome Conflict At Work?
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Nobody likes conflict at work, but a new Ross School study shows that Americans are a lot more optimistic than East Asians about the chances of successfully resolving disputes on the job. And...
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Pecking Over Finance
December 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the biggest decisions for any chief financial officer is finding the optimal capital structure for the firm. Is the company best served by issuing stocks? Or is it best to raise capital via...
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Casino Gambling: Hold 'Em Or Fold 'Em?
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
People who gamble at casinos know when to hold 'em - or quit while they're ahead - but have trouble deciding when to fold 'em when they're behind, says a University of Michigan researcher. A new...
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Privatization Laboratory
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Physicists often wish they could go back and observe the Big Bang, since it would help resolve some of the most confounding mysteries about the universe. Economists studying transition economies...
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World's Top Management Guru Calls For Radical Innovation At First India Business Conference
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Prahalad is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy at Ross. He presented his vision for "India at 75" during the school's premier India Business Conference Oct....
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Two Sides Of The Same Coin: How Category Leniency Affects Multiple Audience Evaluations
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Research across many literatures indicates that organizations with unclear identities will suffer in terms of external evaluations. In this paper, the author suggests that this depends on the type...
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Resilience Begins To Fade At Retail
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Retail sales numbers from July indicate American consumers - hit by lower home values and high prices for food and fuel - are pulling back on spending. Consumers had been somewhat resilient in the...
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Should Corporations Have A Soul?
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Ross School of Business researchers pondered the question of whether or not corporations should be "soulful." Should corporations be responsible to shareholders, employers, customers, and...
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Detroit Responds: Customer Satisfaction Matches Asian Competitors
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Taxpayers are getting a first hint of potential returns on their investment in the American auto industry: Detroit automakers are doing a much better job of satisfying their customers, according...
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Customer Satisfaction Rises Again
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, a national economic indicator of customer evaluations of the quality of products and services, registered its second straight quarterly improvement after...
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Cleveland Clinic: A Laboratory For Operations Management
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cleveland Clinic is one of the nation's leading medical institutions. But like many large and complex organizations, it can be plagued by operational challenges. A couple years ago, surgeons...
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A Reevaluation Of Property Tax Capitalization
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The effect of property taxation on housing prices has long been of interest in the study of local public finance. Soaring property tax bills from increasing housing values have at times led to...
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Private Equity Has Toolkit To Ease Troubled Market
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The global economic crisis has many people playing the blame game, and private equity gets its share of the heat amid the ongoing credit crunch. But the public perception often doesn't match the...
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Markets With A Mission
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The mission of a business might seem simple: Produce a product or a service, make a profit, and use that profit to expand the business. But social and environmental issues are impacting the...
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The Sense(s) And Sensibilities Of Marketing
February 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
The modern consumer faces a marketplace jammed with hundreds of thousands of products. Companies bombard the buyer from every angle in an effort to stand out, capture market share, and establish...
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Building Israel's Brand
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The nation of Israel is often in the news, and many times not for reasons its government appreciates. The site of frequent armed conflict, the country often is perceived as a hardline Jewish state...
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Loose Standards, Sluggish Economy Make For Mortgage Muddle
July 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The soaring number of "For sale" signs on the nation's front lawns due to foreclosures can be blamed on two culprits: looser mortgage underwriting standards and a weakening of local economies. The...
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Distributed Source Coding Using Abelian Group Codes: Extracting Performance From Structure
October 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a distributed source coding problem with a joint distortion criterion depending on the sources and the reconstruction. This includes as a special case the...
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Information Rates of Densely Sampled Gaussian Data: Distributed Vector Quantization and Scalar Quantization With Transforms
December 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
Motivated by the question of the efficiency of dense sensor networks for sampling and encoding spatial random fields, this paper investigates the rates attainable by several lossy schemes for...
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On the Scalability of P2P-Based Push-Driven Live Streaming Systems
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
TeleVision transmitted over IP (IPTV) presents numerous opportunities for users as well as service providers, and has attracted significant interest from business and research communities in...
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Impacts of Peer Characteristics on P2PTV Networks Scalability
January 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
A P2PTV system allows users to watch live video streams redistributed by other users via a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network. In an ideal world, each peer in a P2P network would be able to redistribute...
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Scalability and Efficiency of Push-Driven P2PTV Systems
December 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
TeleVision transmitted over IP (IPTV) presents numerous opportunities for users as well as service providers, and has attracted significant interest from industry as well as research communities...
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A Simulation Study of IEEE 802.11 With Optimal Rate Control in Multi-Hop Topologies
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The most commonly used scheduling scheme to build wireless multi-hop networks is CSMA-CA as off-the shelf IEEE 802.11 radios can be used to easily and cheaply deploy a multi-hop network. However,...
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Quantifying Information Leaks in Outbound Web Traffic
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the Internet grows and network bandwidth continues to increase, administrators are faced with the task of keeping confidential information from leaving their networks. Today's network traffic...
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Protecting Confidential Data on Personal Computers With Storage Capsules
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Protecting confidential information is a major concern for organizations and individuals alike, who stand to suffer huge losses if private data falls into the wrong hands. One of the primary...
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Security in Practice: Security-Usability Chasm
October 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Computer systems security area has received increased attention from both academics and in industry. However, recent work indicates that substantial security gaps emerge when systems are deployed,...
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A General Purpose Feature Extractor for Light Detection and Ranging Data
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
Feature extraction is a central step of processing LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) data. Existing detectors tend to exploit characteristics of specific environments: corners and lines from...
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Graph-Based Segmentation for Colored 3D Laser Point Clouds
July 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an efficient graph-theoretic algorithm for segmenting a colored laser point cloud derived from a laser scanner and camera. Segmentation of raw sensor data is a crucial first...
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A Passive Solution to the Sensor Synchronization Problem
July 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Knowing the time at which sensors acquired data is critical to the proper processing and interpretation of that data, particularly for mobile robots attempting to project sensor data into a...
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AprilTag: A Robust and Flexible Visual Fiducial System
June 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
While the use of naturally-occurring features is a central focus of machine perception, artificial features (fiducials) play an important role in creating controllable experiments, ground...
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Iterative Path Optimization for Practical Robot Planning
July 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a hybrid path planner that combines two common methods for robotic planning: a Dijkstra graph search for the minimum distance path through the configuration space and an...
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A Survey of Botnet Technology and Defenses
April 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Global Internet threats have undergone a profound transformation from attacks designed solely to disable infrastructure to those that also target people and organizations. At the center of many of...
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An Analysis of Single-Layer Networks in Unsupervised Feature Learning
April 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A great deal of research has focused on algorithms for learning features from unlabeled data. Indeed, much progress has been made on benchmark datasets like NORB and CIFAR by employing...
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Erasing Core Boundaries for Robust and Configurable Performance
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Single-thread performance, reliability and power efficiency are critical design challenges of future multicore systems. Although point solutions have been proposed to address these issues, a more...
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StageNet: A Reconfigurable CMP Fabric for Resilient Systems
November 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Though CMOS feature size scaling has been the source of dramatic performance gains, this scaling has lead to mounting reliability concerns due to increasing power densities and on-chip...
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The StageNet Fabric for Constructing Resilient Multicore Systems
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Scaling of CMOS feature size has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, the reduction in voltage levels has not been able to match this rate of scaling, leading to increasing...
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Adaptive Online Testing for Efficient Hard Fault Detection
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With growing semiconductor integration, the reliability of individual transistors is expected to rapidly decline in future technology generations. In such a scenario, processors would need to be...
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Analyzing the Scalability of SIMD for the Next Generation Software Defined Radio
January 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Previous studies have shown that wireless DSP algorithms exhibit high levels of Data Level Parallelism (DLP). Commercial and research work in the field of Software Defined Radio (SDR) has produced...
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Dynamic Parallelization of JavaScript Applications Using an Ultra-lightweight Speculation Mechanism
December 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the web becomes the platform of choice for execution of more complex applications, a growing portion of computation is handed off by developers to the client side to reduce network traffic and...
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Dynamically Accelerating Client-Side Web Applications Through Decoupled Execution
January 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The emergence and wide adoption of web applications have moved the client-side component, often written in JavaScript, to the forefront of computing on the web. Web application developers try to...
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Data Access Partitioning for Fine-Grain Parallelism on Multicore Architectures
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The recent design shift towards multicore processors has spawned a significant amount of research in the area of program parallelization. The future abundance of cores on a single chip requires...
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Compilerdirected Data Partitioning for Multicluster Processors
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multicluster architectures overcome the scaling problem of centralized resources by distributing the datapath, register file, and memory subsystem across multiple clusters connected by a...
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SPEX: A Programming Language for Software Defined Radio
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
High-throughput, low-power Software Defined Radio(SDR) solutions require multi-core SIMD DSP processors to meet real-time performance requirements. Given the difficulty in programming traditional...
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SODA: A Lowpower Architecture for Software Radio
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The physical layer of most wireless protocols is traditionally implemented in custom hardware to satisfy the heavy computational requirements while keeping power consumption to a minimum. These...
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BulletProof: A DefectTolerant CMP Switch Architecture
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
As silicon technologies move into the nanometer regime, transistor reliability is expected to wane as devices become subject to extreme process variation, particle-induced transient errors, and...
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Selfcalibrating Online Wearout Detection
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Technology scaling, characterized by decreasing feature size, thinning gate oxide, and non-ideal voltage scaling, will become a major hindrance to microprocessor reliability in future technology...
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Flextream: Adaptive Compilation of Streaming Applications for Heterogeneous Architectures
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Increasing demand for performance and efficiency has driven the computer industry toward multicore systems. These systems have become the industry standard in almost all segments of the computer...
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Uncovering Hidden Loop Level Parallelism in Sequential Applications
December 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
As multicore systems become the dominant mainstream computing technology, one of the most difficult challenges the industry faces is the software. Applications with large amounts of explicit...
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Extending Multicore Architectures to Exploit Hybrid Parallelism in Single-Thread Applications
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of power dissipation and...
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Power-Efficient Medical Image Processing Using PUMA
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming an increasingly popular platform to run applications that require a high computation throughput. They are limited, however, by memory bandwidth and...
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Low-Power Scientific Computing
December 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
Scientists and mathematicians are increasingly realizing the computational benefits of using modern, multi-core architectures. In response to this, manufacturers of traditional desktop...
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PEPSC: A Power-Efficient Processor for Scientific Computing
October 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The rapid advancements in the computational capabilities of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as well as the deployment of general programming models for these devices have made the vision of a...
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MiBench: A Free, Commercially Representative Embedded Benchmark Suite
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines a set of commercially representative embedded programs and compares them to an existing benchmark suite, SPEC2000. A new version of SimpleScalar that has been adapted to the...
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Finding the Optimal Communication Structure for Networked Computing
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the problem of distributed computation over a wireless network of resource constrained nodes. This problem applies to many wireless sensor networks, including those used for...
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Low Overhead Control Channels in Wireless Networks
September 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Low-latency, low-overhead and reliable control channels are essential to the efficient operation of wireless networks. However, control channels that utilize current in-band and out-of-band...
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EGS: A Cortex M3-Based Mote Platform
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce the Egs mote platform based on the Cortex M3 microcontroller that focuses on medical sensing applications. Egs uses an Atmel SAM3U microcontroller that runs up to 96 MHz and...
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Cooperative Carrier Signaling: Harmonizing Coexisting WPAN and WLAN Devices
June 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The unlicensed ISM spectrum is getting crowded by WLAN and WPAN users and devices. Spectrum sharing within the same network of devices can be arbitrated by existing MAC protocols, but the...
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