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PRDC
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Availability and Performance Evaluation for Automatic Protection Switching in TDMA Wireless System
In this paper, we compare the availability and performance of a wireless TDMA system with and without automatic protection switching. Stochastic reward net models are constructed ...
Hairong Sun, Yonghuan Cao, Kishor S. Trivedi, Jame...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Sharing Random Bits with No Process Coordination
We present a method by which any polynomial-time randomized distributed algorithm is transformed in such way that each participating process needs only polylog local random bits a...
Marius Zimand
FOCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Simple Constructions of Almost k-Wise Independent Random Variables
We present three alternative simple constructions of small probability spaces on n bits for which any k bits are almost independent. The number of bits used to specify a point in ...
Noga Alon, Oded Goldreich, Johan Håstad, Ren...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Selection of Repetition Codes for MAC in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
—In the context of vehicular safety and entertainment applications, we focus on the design of a reliable medium access control scheme. Each vehicle is willing to form a network a...
Ali Honarvar, Shahrokh Valaee
APNOMS
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Improving Handoff Performance by Using Distance-Based Dynamic Hysteresis Value
Abstract. In this study, an adaptive handoff algorithm with a dynamic hysteresis value, based on the distance between the mobile station and the serving base station, is proposed f...
Huamin Zhu, Kyung Sup Kwak