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SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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Eliciting truthful answers to multiple-choice questions
Motivated by the prevalence of online questionnaires in electronic commerce, and of multiple-choice questions in such questionnaires, we consider the problem of eliciting truthful...
Nicolas S. Lambert, Yoav Shoham
CISS
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Relay selection methods for wireless cooperative communications
— We study the problem of relay selection in a wireless cooperative network. Assuming a single source, a single destination, and N uniformly distributed candidate relays, we seek...
Seunghoon Nam, Mai Vu, Vahid Tarokh
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
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ICDCS
2008
IEEE
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On Security Vulnerabilities of Null Data Frames in IEEE 802.11 Based WLANs
Null data frames are a special but important type of frames in IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Local Area Networks (e.g., 802.11 WLANs). They are widely used for power management, chan...
Wenjun Gu, Zhimin Yang, Can Que, Dong Xuan, Weijia...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Implementing and Exploiting Inevitability in Software Transactional Memory
—Transactional Memory (TM) takes responsibility for concurrent, atomic execution of labeled regions of code, freeing the programmer from the need to manage locks. Typical impleme...
Michael F. Spear, Michael Silverman, Luke Dalessan...