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Control Design for Switched Systems Using Passivity Indices
March 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a framework for control design of interconnected nonlinear switched systems using passivity and passivity indices. Background material is presented on the concept of passivity...
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Symmetry in the Design of Large-Scale Complex Control Systems: Some Initial Results Using Dissipativity and Lyapunov Stability
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, stability conditions for large-scale systems are derived by categorizing agents into symmetry groups and applying local control laws under limited interconnections with neighbors....
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Bounds on Information Propagation Delay in Interference-Limited ALOHA Networks
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In a wireless network the set of transmitting nodes changes frequently because of the MAC scheduler and the traffic load. Analyzing the connectivity of such a network using static graphs would...
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Lifetime Benefits Through Load Balancing in Homogeneous Sensor Networks
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
In routing protocols for wireless sensor networks energy efficiency is of paramount importance. Reliability-oriented protocols discard lossy links to avoid the significant energy cost of packet...
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Path Loss Exponent Estimation in Large Wireless Networks
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In wireless channels, the Path Loss Exponent (PLE) has a strong impact on the quality of the links, and hence, it needs to be accurately estimated for the efficient design and operation of...
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A Roesser Model Based Multidimensional Systems Approach for Grid Sensor Networks
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using the Givone-Roesser model for m-D systems, a method for distributed information processing in rectangular grid based sensor networks is presented. The method enables a distributed...
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Distributed Averaging in Dense Wireless Networks
September 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the effect of network throughput on the convergence of a specific class of distributed averaging algorithms, called consensus algorithms. These algorithms rely on iterative...
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Effect of Network Geometry and Interference on Consensus in Wireless Networks
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the convergence of the average consensus algorithm in wireless networks in the presence of interference. It is well-known that convergence of the consensus algorithm improves...
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On Consensus Over Stochastically Switching Directed Topologies
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider average consensus algorithms executed over stochastically varying communication topologies that may be unbalanced. It is known that the state values will reach consensus,...
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An Event-Triggered Distributed Primal-Dual Algorithm for Network Utility Maximization
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many problems associated with networked systems can be formulated as Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems. This paper presents a distributed primal-dual algorithm for the NUM problem that...
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CSOnet: A Metropolitan Scale Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network for Storm Water Management
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes recent a metropolitan (citywide) scale deployment of a sensor-actuator network called CSOnet. CSOnet is a sensor-actuator network that monitors and controls the frequency of...
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Dynamic Connectivity and Packet Propagation Delay in ALOHA Wireless Networks
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider an ad hoc network which uses multihop and slotted ALOHA for its MAC contention. They then formulate the minimum time required for a packet to reach the destination from the...
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Distributed M-D Filtering for Wave Front Detection in Grid Sensor Networks
October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a method to detect propagating fronts of contaminants in air by employing a rectangular grid sensor network. A linear filtering based distributed algorithm is used for...
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Geometry, Connectivity, and Broadcast Transport Capacity of Random Networks With Fading
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In ad hoc networks with random node distribution, the underlying point process model and the channel fading process are usually considered separately. The authors provide a unified framework for...
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Swarming Under Perfect Consensus Using Integral Action
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Swarming is a collective behavior in which a group of distinct dynamical agents begin to move as a single entity. Swarming behavior has fascinated those interested in how collective actions can...
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Distributed Flow Control Using Embedded Sensor-Actuator Networks for the Reduction of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Events
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the distributed control of network flows using an embedded sensor-actuator network. The authors focus on the problem of reducing the frequency of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)...
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Model Based Networked Control Systems: A Discrete Time Lifting Approach
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, control networks have been replacing traditional point-to-point wired systems. In networked control systems, the different elements, plants, controllers, sensors, and actuators...
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Parameter Identification in Model Based Networked Control Systems Using Kalman Filters
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The applicability of Model Based Networked Control Systems (MB-NCS) is often limited by the inexact knowledge of the dynamics of the system being controlled. On-line identification of system...
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Passivity Index for Switched System Design
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a framework for control design of general nonlinear switched systems using passivity and two passivity indexes. Background material will be presented on traditional passivity...
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Connection Between the Passivity Index and Conic Systems
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper covers open-loop conditions that guarantee closed-loop stability of a feedback interconnection of two systems. The traditional solutions for this problem are passivity theory and the...
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Sensorless Sensing in Wireless Networks: Implementation and Measurements
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Multipath fading and shadowing are usually regarded as negative phenomena hindering proper radio communication. Adopting a completely different stance, this paper illustrates that such phenomena...
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Botnet Economics: Uncertainty Matters
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Botnets have become an increasing security concern in today's Internet. Thus far the mitigation to botnet attacks is a never ending arms race focusing on technical approaches. In this paper, the...
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Improving Medium-Sized Media Clip Distribution Through Transparent Tail Synchronization
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of popular video sharing sites such as YouTube has created a tremendous content shift towards timely, medium-sized media together with placing significant demands on the network....
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Emergency Response in Smartphone-Based Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
December 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
Today's modern mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets) present great potential for building large-scale mobile sensing and information sharing systems which can be highly beneficial to...
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Applying DDDAS Principles to Command, Control and Mission Planning for UAV Swarms
March 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
Government agencies predict ever-increasing inventories of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Sizes will vary from current manned aircraft scales to miniature, micro, millimeter scales or smaller....
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Method for Privacy-Protecting Display and Exchange of Emergency Information on Mobile Devices
January 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
First responders and emergency care providers make life or death decisions with little to no information about patient's medical problems. Access to a person's medical record could greatly improve...
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Service Sharing in Mobile Sensing Systems
July 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today's modern mobile devices, (such as smartphones and tablets) present great potential for growth of many novel, powerful, but also highly demanding applications. However, most mobile...
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An Online Holistic Scheduling Framework for Energy-Constrained Wireless Real-Time Systems
June 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider wireless real-time systems that execute computationally-intensive applications and must transmit packets over the network in a timely manner. Existing methods do not consider...
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An Integrated Monitoring System for Smartphones
October 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Much work has been done in the area of monitoring on traditional systems, such as servers, workstations and laptops. User and application behavior has also been studied on a wide range of...
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Local Delay in Static and Highly Mobile Poisson Networks With ALOHA
January 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
Communication between two neighboring nodes is the most basic operation in wireless networks. Yet very little research has focused on the local delay, defined as the mean time it takes a node to...
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Implementation and Experimental Results of Superposition Coding on Software Radio
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In theory, multi-user techniques such as Super-Position Coding (SPC) are known to improve throughput in wireless networks. However, in order to understand their practical limitations, it is...
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Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System
March 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
Although the distributed file-system is a widely used technology in local area networks, it has seen less use on the wide area networks that connect clusters, clouds, and grids. One reason for...
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Converting a High Performance Application to an Elastic Cloud Application
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over the past decade, high performance applications have embraced parallel programming and computing models. While parallel computing offers advantages such as good utilization of dedicated...
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Work Queue + Python: A Framework for Scalable Scientific Ensemble Applications
October 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Even with the increase in the number and variety of computer resources available to research scientists today, it is still challenging to construct scalable distributed applications. To address...
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Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one large national-scale computing grid has...
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Energy-Balancing Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The lifetime of wireless sensor network is crucial, since autonomous operation must be guaranteed over an extended period. As all the sensor data has to be forwarded to an observer via multi-hop...
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Modelling Packet Loss in RTP-Based Streaming Video for Residential Users
July 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Packet loss is a major problem for real-time Internet applications. Markov models of packet loss are often used to develop and evaluate the performance of these applications. Despite their wide...
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Jerry Dwyer From The Atlanta Fed. Discusses Schnabl's Paper
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Jerry Dwyer is an economist, who currently is Director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the...
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Securitization Without Risk Transfer
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Philipp Schnabl received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Finance in August 2008. Professor Schnabl's main...
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Craig Brown Discusses Martin Oehmke's Paper
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Craig Brown is an assistant professor of finance at Baruch College, City University of New York. He received his doctorate of philosophy in Finance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,...
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Credit Default Swaps And The Empty Creditor Problem
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Martin Oehmke received his BA from Oxford in 2002 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2009. He currently teaches Capital Markets and Investments at Columbia Business School. Professor Oehmke's...
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Larry Wall From The Atlanta Fed. Discusses Craig Pirrong's Paper
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Larry Wall is a financial economist and policy adviser in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Prior to joining the Fed., he taught at Emory University and the Georgia...
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Mutualization Of Default Risk
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Craig Pirrong holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston as Professor of Finance and...
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Economics And Securities Regulation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Chester Spatt is the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Chief Economist of the SEC from 2004-2007. He served as President of the Western...
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Stanislava Nikolova From The SEC Discusses Ingo Fender's Paper
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Stanislava Nikolova joined the Office of Economic Analysis at the SEC in August 2008 as a visiting academic scholar. Dr. Nikolova is currently on leave from George Mason University, where she is...
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Incentives And Tranche Retention In Securitization
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ingo Fender is a Special Adviser in the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel. Before taking up his current assignment, he held various...
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Contingent Capital With A Dual Price Trigger
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Robert McDonald is a Professor of Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He received a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. in Economics...
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The Importance Of Monitoring And Mitigating The Safety-Net. Consequences Of Regulation-Induced Innovation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ed Kane received his BS degree from Georgetown University and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he occupied the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary...
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Fred Dust
February 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Fred Dust, practice lead, IDEO, explains how design thinking can solve business problems. This innovative approach involves designing your way into a solution.
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Ethics In The MBA: Interview With Professor Pat Murphy
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Pat Murphy, Professor of Marketing, describes what ethical leadership means inside the Notre Dame MBA curriculum, describing ethical themes built into required and elective courses and practical...
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Interview With Jeff Bergstrand
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Interview with Finance Professor Jeff Bergstrand about the current economy.
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Annual Ethics Conference: Fresh Takes On Right And Wrong
May 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Business ethics has moved to the center stage of public scrutiny, even as regulators and the U.S. Congress call on Goldman Sachs and other investment banks to explain their involvement in the...
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Companies Cut Holiday Parties And Donate To Charity Instead
December 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
Although the recession has Scrooges many corporate parties off the 2008 holiday calendar, some firms are transforming humbug into humanitarianism by giving the savings to charity....
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ND Expert: Truth Will Serve BP Better Than Paid Ads
June 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The first rule of crisis communication management is for the company to get the facts fast so that it is dealing from an informed position and becomes the source of reliable information, says...
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Dean Carolyn Woo: Globetrotting In The Name Of Business Ethics
June 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
"When one sees the recent cases of corporate malfeasance, one can easily agree that ethics and values are sorely needed as driving leadership principles," says the author. "But there's a bigger...
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Financial Crisis Fallout: Compensation Changes, More Regulation
July 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
What lies ahead in the roller-coaster world of finance? That's the area of study for Matthew Cain, assistant professor of finance, who joined the faculty at the Mendoza College of Business in July...
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ND Expert: U.S. Economy Growing, But Expect Hardship Through 2010
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The economy is recovering, although it is still in a recession, according to author." The reason that these two conclusions can co-exist is that the latter is consistent with the technical...
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IT Management Lab Gets New Microsoft Surface Unit: Hands-On Computer Aids In Group Projects
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A new computer at the Mendoza College of Business brings a fresh meaning to the phrase "hands-on learning." The Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch computer that responds via infrared cameras and...
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New Equipment Enhances Accenture Information Technology Management Lab
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Among improvements is increased network capability. Along the perimeter of the classroom, assistant professor John D'Arcy can set up four networks, each with five personal computers and a server....
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New Center At Notre Dame Studies Financial Regulation
October 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In September 2008, as the stock market began its precipitous slide, federal regulators abruptly moved to ban short sales of financial stocks. The hope was to protect companies whose stock was...
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Fighting For Ethical Leadership
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A year ago, business failures began erupting across our economy. And in the ensuing months, thousands lost jobs and their hopes for a stable future. Homes were foreclosed, factories shut down. And...
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Q & A With Barry Keating: Smarter Forecasting, Better Profits
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
For businesses, it's crucial to have accurate forecasts for product demand. When there's an economic downturn that curbs orders, they risk big losses if they have too much inventory. Likewise,...
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Cutting Out The Middleman Isn't Always Best For The Consumer
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Internet and other information technologies have complicated the relationship between manufacturers and retailers. Whereas the traditional distribution model had four levels - manufacturer,...
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Dining With An Oracle: MBAs Meet Warren Buffet
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Nick Shirk, 2010 MBA candidate at the University of Notre Dame, had dinner with Warren Buffett the other day. The steak was good. Meeting Buffett was priceless. "He does not disappoint," said...
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On Average Consensus Over Stochastically Switching Directed Topologies
March 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Average consensus is a canonical problem in wireless sensor networks. Wireless communication channels exhibit stochastic data loss due to multiple reasons including fading and interference. This...
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Combating Imbalance in Network Intrusion Datasets
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
An approach to combating network intrusion is the development of systems applying machine learning and data mining techniques. Many IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) suffer from a high rate of...
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Multi-Biometric Approaches to Ear Biometrics and Soft Biometrics
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores hard and soft biometric systems. Hard biometrics is features that are used to uniquely identify individuals over time, while soft biometrics do not uniquely identify...
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Scaling Up Classiers to Cloud Computers
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
As the size of available datasets has grown from Megabytes to Gigabytes and now into Terabytes, machine learning algorithms and computing infrastructures have continuously evolved in an effort to...
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All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data-Intensive Cloud Computing
January 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Although modern parallel and distributed computing systems provide easy access to large amounts of computing power, it is not always easy for non-expert users to harness these large systems...
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Troubleshooting Distributed Systems Via Data Mining
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply debugging when...
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Energy-Balancing Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The lifetime of wireless sensor network is crucial, since autonomous operation must be guaranteed over an extended period. As all the sensor data has to be forwarded to an observer via multi-hop...
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Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one large national-scale computing grid has...
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Short Paper: Troubleshooting Distributed Systems Via Data Mining
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply debugging when...
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Arbutus: Network-Layer Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The hot spot problem is a typical byproduct of the many-to-one traffic pattern that characterizes most wireless sensor networks: the nodes with the best channel to the sink are overloaded with...
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