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Utility Analysis for Internet-Oriented Server Consolidation in VM-Based Data Centers
July 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Server consolidation based on virtualization technology will simplify system administration, reduce the cost of power and physical infrastructure, and improve utilization in today's...
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Principles of Network Monitoring
October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Efficient and cost-effective measurement of network characteristics is pivotal for distributed systems deployed on the Internet. The network characteristics are utilized by Internet-based...
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Data Quality and Failures Characterization of Sensing Data in Environmental Applications
March 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Environmental monitoring is one of the most important sensor network application domains. The success of those applications is determined by the quality of the collected data. Thus, it is crucial...
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On Measuring the Performance of Adaptive Wormhole Routing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Adaptive routing is widely regarded as a promising approach to improving interconnection network performance. Many designers of adaptive routing algorithms have used synthetic communication...
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Cross-Layer Design of Wireless Networking for Parallel Loading of Access Points (PLAP)
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper processes a new cross-layer framework design for Parallel Download and Upload (PDU). This technique has been called as Parallel Loading of Access Points (PLAP). The authors have shown...
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SCAN: An Efficient Sector Failure Recovery Algorithm for RAID-6 Codes
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent studies show disks fail much more often in real systems than specified in their data-sheets and RAID-5 may not be able to provide needed reliability for practical systems. It is desirable...
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Unraveling the Subtleties of Link Estimation and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
July 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless communication assumes complex spatial and temporal dynamics, thus estimating link properties is a basic element of routing in wireless networks. One commonly used approach of link...
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Building Self-Adaptive Cyber Physical Systems Using Unreliable Components
October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modern automobiles, featuring increased convenience, safety, and energy savings, have become more and more reliant on the outcomes of the IT industry. Existing services such as vehicle tracking,...
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Secure Scientific Workflow Provenance Querying With Security Views
September 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this work, the authors studied the problem of protecting scientific workflow provenance, including both data products and their provenance. First, this paper formalized scientific workflow...
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Accelerating the HMMER Sequence Analysis Suite Using Conventional Processors
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Due to the ever-increasing size of sequence databases it has become clear that faster techniques must be employed to effectively perform biological sequence analysis in a reasonable amount of...
Provided by Wayne State University
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An Adaptive Heterogeneous Software DSM
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a mechanism to run parallel applications in heterogeneous, dynamic environments while maintaining thread synchrony. A heterogeneous software DSM is used to provide...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Adaptive Secure Access to Remote Services
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the inception of service-oriented computing paradigm, the authors have witnessed a plethora of services deployed across a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from conventional RPC-based...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
Ontology-Based Annotation of Multimedia Language Data for the Semantic Web
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is an increasing interest and effort in preserving and documenting endangered languages. Language data are valuable only when they are well-cataloged, indexed and searchable. Many language...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
Temporal Data Mining for Root-Cause Analysis of Machine Faults in Automotive Assembly Lines
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Engine assembly is a complex and heavily automated distributed-control process, with large amounts of faults data logged everyday. The authors describe an application of temporal data mining for...
Provided by Wayne State University
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An Efficient XOR-Scheduling Algorithm for Erasure Codes Encoding
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In large storage systems, it is crucial to protect data from loss due to failures. Erasure codes lay the foundation of this protection, enabling systems to reconstruct lost data when components...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD-Style Parallel Programs
March 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Automatic performance debugging of parallel applications includes two main steps: locating performance bottlenecks and uncovering their root causes for performance optimization. Previous work...
Provided by Wayne State University
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TARF: A Trust-Aware Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
Multi-hop routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offers little protection against deception through replaying routing information. This defect can be taken advantage of by an adversary to...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Efficient Bidding for Virtual Machine Instances in Clouds
October 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Combinatorial auctions are efficient mechanisms for allocating Virtual Machine (VM) instances to cloud computing users. Despite the fact that, in general, these mechanisms lead to higher revenues...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Experimental Analysis of Link Estimation Methods in Low Power Wireless Networks
July 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are envisioned to be an integral part of cyber-physical systems, yet wireless networks are inherently dynamic and come with varieties of uncertainties. One such...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
On the Convergence and Stability of Data-Driven Link Estimation and Routing in Sensor Networks
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The wireless network community has become increasingly aware of the benefits of data-driven link estimation and routing as compared with beacon-based approaches, but the issue of Biased Link...
Provided by Wayne State University
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On Link Asymmetry and One-Way Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Link asymmetry is one of the characteristic challenges that wireless sensor networks pose in the design of network protocols. The authors observe, based on testbed experiments that a substantial...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
LENS: Resource Specification for Wireless Sensor Network Experimentation Infrastructures
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As a first step towards predictable, repeatable WSN experimentation, the authors propose the resource specification language LENS (a.k.a. Language for Embedded Networked Sensing) for WSN...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Toward Actively Defending From Dos Attacks in UMTS-WLAN
July 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A wireless network is more vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks than a wired one. In this paper, the authors propose a new DoS defense scheme toward actively resisting DoS attacks. A...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Canadian-Bank Stability During The Great Depression: The Role Of Bank-Note Issuance And Finance-Act Advances
November 30, 2007, 12:00am PST
During the Great Depression more than 10,000 U.S. banks failed amidst widespread depositor runs while no failures or runs occurred in Canada. This paper credits the Canadian stability to a high...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Simple Regenerating Codes: Network Coding for Cloud Storage
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network codes designed specifically for distributed storage systems have the potential to provide dramatically higher storage efficiency for the same availability. One main challenge in the design...
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Random Choices for Churn Resilient Load Balancing in Peer-to-Peer Networks
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load uneven distribution problem. Things are even worse in unstructured P2P systems. The objective of load...
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Autonomic Management of Virtualized Resources in Cloud Computing
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The last five years have witnessed a rapid growth of cloud computing in business, governmental and educational IT deployment. Hosting services in a cloud gradually supersedes traditional IT...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Spherical Representation and Polyhedron Routing for Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the problem of scalable and load balanced routing for wireless sensor networks. Motivated by the analog of the continuous setting that geodesic routing on a...
Provided by Wayne State University
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A Game Theoretic Investigation of Deception in Network Security
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors perform a game theoretic investigation of the effects of deception on the interactions between an attacker and a defender of a computer network. The defender can employ camouflage by...
Provided by Wayne State University
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A Distributed Algorithm for Web Content Replication
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web caching and replication techniques increase accessibility of Web contents and reduce Internet bandwidth requirements. In this paper, the authors are considering the replica placement problem...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Fine-Grained Power Management Using Process-Level Profiling
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Low-power hardware design itself is not enough to solve the power problem of computer systems. Operating system level power saving strategies have been proved as effective complement to hardware...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Role-Based Deceptive Detection and Filtering in WSNs
January 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
With more and more real applications of WSNs have been deployed, which are in charge of either monitoring parameters or event detection, the authors envision that the success of the WSNs is...
Provided by Wayne State University
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DIMM: A Distributed Metadata Management for Data-Intensive HPC Environments
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Within the scientific community many high performance applications are used in order to run experiments on data sets. These data sets can be very large in size or in number. Both of these...
Provided by Wayne State University
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FLAW: FaiLure-Aware Workflow Scheduling in High Performance Computing Systems
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The goal of workflow application scheduling is to achieve minimal make-span for each workflow. Scheduling workflow applications in high performance computing environments, e.g., clusters, is an...
Provided by Wayne State University
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A Novel Topology Discovery Service for Self-Organized WSNs
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a topology discovery service, which is a network service that promotes the concept of cross-layer design. The topology service, which is the fundamental of any self-organized...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Performance Evaluation of Mobile Multicast Session Initialization Techniques for Remote Software Upload in Vehicle ECUs
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Updating software in vehicle Electronic Control Units (ECUs) will become a mandatory requirement for a variety of reasons, for examples, to update functionality of an existing system, add new...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Experimental Characterization of DSRC Signal Strength Drops
August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) is gaining momentum as the protocol of choice for wireless vehicle safety applications by automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and road...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Whitepapers
Towards Predictable Real-Time Routing for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Real-time routing is a basic element of closed-loop, real-time sensing and control, but it is very challenging due to dynamic, uncertain link/path delay. A basis of real-time routing is...
Provided by Wayne State University
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The Case for Addressing the Limiting Impact of Interference on Wireless Scheduling
July 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Co-channel interference is a limiting factor to the predictability and performance of wireless networks, thus interference-oriented scheduling of channel access has become a basic building block...
Provided by Wayne State University
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NetEye: A User-Centered Wireless Sensor Network Testbed for High-Fidelity, Robust Experimentation
April 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Experimentation infrastructures for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely adopted over the past decade for hi-fidelity validation and rapid prototyping of applications and for...
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OPQL: A First OPM-Level Query Language for Scientific Workflow Provenance
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Provenance, which is one kind of metadata that captures the derivation history of a data product, including its original data sources, intermediate products, and the steps that were applied to...
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Online Measurement of the Capacity of Multi-Tier Websites Using Hardware Performance Counters
August 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Understanding server capacity is crucial for system capacity planning, configuration, and QoS-aware resource management. Conventional stress testing approaches measure the server capacity in terms...
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A Distributed Self-Learning Approach for Elastic Provisioning of Virtualized Cloud Resources
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Although cloud computing has gained sufficient popularity recently, there are still some key impediments to enterprise adoption. Cloud management is one of the top challenges. The ability of...
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Coordinated Self-Configuration of Virtual Machines and Appliances Using a Model-Free Learning Approach
August 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has a key requirement for resource configuration in a real-time manner. In such virtualized environments, both Virtual Machines (VMs) and hosted applications need to be configured...
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State Observability and Observers of Linear-Time-Invariant Systems Under Irregular Sampling and Sensor Limitations
January 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
State observability and observer designs are investigated for linear-time-invariant systems in continuous time when the outputs are measured only at a set of irregular sampling time sequences. The...
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Recursive Estimation Algorithms for Power Controls of Wireless Communication Networks
October 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Power control problems for wireless communication networks are investigated in DS/CDMA channels. It is shown that the underlying problem can be formulated as a constrained optimization problem in...
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Online Web System Auto-Configuration
March 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a web system, configuration is crucial to the performance and service availability. It is a challenge, not only because of the dynamics of Internet traffic, but also the dynamic virtual machine...
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URL: A Unified Reinforcement Learning Approach for Autonomic Cloud Management
October 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is emerging as an increasingly important service-oriented computing paradigm. Management is a key to providing accurate service availability and performance data, as well as...
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A Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Approach for Coordinated Configuration of Virtual Machines and Appliances
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has a key requirement for resource configuration in a real-time manner. In such virtualized environments, both Virtual Machines (VMs) and hosted applications need to be configured...
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Mechanism Design for Stochastic Virtual Resource Allocation in Non-Cooperative Cloud Systems
April 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Currently, virtualization technology has been widely adopted by cloud service providers to provide flexible and cost-effective resource sharing among users. On cloud platforms, computing resources...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Whitepapers
NetEye: A User-Centered Wireless Sensor Network Testbed for High-Fidelity, Robust Experimentation
April 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Experimentation infrastructures for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely adopted over the past decade for hi-fidelity validation and rapid prototyping of applications and for...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Whitepapers
The Case for Addressing the Limiting Impact of Interference on Wireless Scheduling
July 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Co-channel interference is a limiting factor to the predictability and performance of wireless networks, thus interference-oriented scheduling of channel access has become a basic building block...
Provided by Wayne State University
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Whitepapers
Towards Predictable Real-Time Routing for Wireless Networked Sensing and Control
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Real-time routing is a basic element of closed-loop, real-time sensing and control, but it is very challenging due to dynamic, uncertain link/path delay. A basis of real-time routing is...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Experimental Characterization of DSRC Signal Strength Drops
August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) is gaining momentum as the protocol of choice for wireless vehicle safety applications by automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and road...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Multicast Session Initialization Techniques for Remote Software Upload in Vehicle ECUs
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Updating software in vehicle Electronic Control Units (ECUs) will become a mandatory requirement for a variety of reasons, for examples, to update functionality of an existing system, add new...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
A Novel Topology Discovery Service for Self-Organized WSNs
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a topology discovery service, which is a network service that promotes the concept of cross-layer design. The topology service, which is the fundamental of any self-organized...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
FLAW: FaiLure-Aware Workflow Scheduling in High Performance Computing Systems
November 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The goal of workflow application scheduling is to achieve minimal make-span for each workflow. Scheduling workflow applications in high performance computing environments, e.g., clusters, is an...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
DIMM: A Distributed Metadata Management for Data-Intensive HPC Environments
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Within the scientific community many high performance applications are used in order to run experiments on data sets. These data sets can be very large in size or in number. Both of these...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Role-Based Deceptive Detection and Filtering in WSNs
January 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
With more and more real applications of WSNs have been deployed, which are in charge of either monitoring parameters or event detection, the authors envision that the success of the WSNs is...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Fine-Grained Power Management Using Process-Level Profiling
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Low-power hardware design itself is not enough to solve the power problem of computer systems. Operating system level power saving strategies have been proved as effective complement to hardware...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
A Distributed Algorithm for Web Content Replication
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web caching and replication techniques increase accessibility of Web contents and reduce Internet bandwidth requirements. In this paper, the authors are considering the replica placement problem...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
A Game Theoretic Investigation of Deception in Network Security
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors perform a game theoretic investigation of the effects of deception on the interactions between an attacker and a defender of a computer network. The defender can employ camouflage by...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Spherical Representation and Polyhedron Routing for Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the problem of scalable and load balanced routing for wireless sensor networks. Motivated by the analog of the continuous setting that geodesic routing on a...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Autonomic Management of Virtualized Resources in Cloud Computing
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The last five years have witnessed a rapid growth of cloud computing in business, governmental and educational IT deployment. Hosting services in a cloud gradually supersedes traditional IT...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Simple Regenerating Codes: Network Coding for Cloud Storage
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network codes designed specifically for distributed storage systems have the potential to provide dramatically higher storage efficiency for the same availability. One main challenge in the design...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
Canadian-Bank Stability During The Great Depression: The Role Of Bank-Note Issuance And Finance-Act Advances
November 30, 2007, 12:00am PST
During the Great Depression more than 10,000 U.S. banks failed amidst widespread depositor runs while no failures or runs occurred in Canada. This paper credits the Canadian stability to a high...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Toward Actively Defending From Dos Attacks in UMTS-WLAN
July 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A wireless network is more vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks than a wired one. In this paper, the authors propose a new DoS defense scheme toward actively resisting DoS attacks. A...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
LENS: Resource Specification for Wireless Sensor Network Experimentation Infrastructures
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As a first step towards predictable, repeatable WSN experimentation, the authors propose the resource specification language LENS (a.k.a. Language for Embedded Networked Sensing) for WSN...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
On Link Asymmetry and One-Way Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Link asymmetry is one of the characteristic challenges that wireless sensor networks pose in the design of network protocols. The authors observe, based on testbed experiments that a substantial...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
On the Convergence and Stability of Data-Driven Link Estimation and Routing in Sensor Networks
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The wireless network community has become increasingly aware of the benefits of data-driven link estimation and routing as compared with beacon-based approaches, but the issue of Biased Link...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Experimental Analysis of Link Estimation Methods in Low Power Wireless Networks
July 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are envisioned to be an integral part of cyber-physical systems, yet wireless networks are inherently dynamic and come with varieties of uncertainties. One such...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Efficient Bidding for Virtual Machine Instances in Clouds
October 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Combinatorial auctions are efficient mechanisms for allocating Virtual Machine (VM) instances to cloud computing users. Despite the fact that, in general, these mechanisms lead to higher revenues...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
TARF: A Trust-Aware Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
Multi-hop routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offers little protection against deception through replaying routing information. This defect can be taken advantage of by an adversary to...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Automatic Performance Debugging of SPMD-Style Parallel Programs
March 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Automatic performance debugging of parallel applications includes two main steps: locating performance bottlenecks and uncovering their root causes for performance optimization. Previous work...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
An Efficient XOR-Scheduling Algorithm for Erasure Codes Encoding
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In large storage systems, it is crucial to protect data from loss due to failures. Erasure codes lay the foundation of this protection, enabling systems to reconstruct lost data when components...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Temporal Data Mining for Root-Cause Analysis of Machine Faults in Automotive Assembly Lines
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Engine assembly is a complex and heavily automated distributed-control process, with large amounts of faults data logged everyday. The authors describe an application of temporal data mining for...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Ontology-Based Annotation of Multimedia Language Data for the Semantic Web
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is an increasing interest and effort in preserving and documenting endangered languages. Language data are valuable only when they are well-cataloged, indexed and searchable. Many language...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Adaptive Secure Access to Remote Services
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the inception of service-oriented computing paradigm, the authors have witnessed a plethora of services deployed across a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from conventional RPC-based...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
An Adaptive Heterogeneous Software DSM
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a mechanism to run parallel applications in heterogeneous, dynamic environments while maintaining thread synchrony. A heterogeneous software DSM is used to provide...
Provided by Wayne State University
-
White Papers
Accelerating the HMMER Sequence Analysis Suite Using Conventional Processors
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Due to the ever-increasing size of sequence databases it has become clear that faster techniques must be employed to effectively perform biological sequence analysis in a reasonable amount of...
Provided by Wayne State University
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