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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Vehicular opportunistic communication under the microscope
We consider the problem of providing vehicular Internet access using roadside 802.11 access points. We build on previous work in this area [18, 8, 5, 11] with an extensive experim...
David Hadaller, Srinivasan Keshav, Tim Brecht, Shu...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
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MOBISYS
2006
ACM
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Context-aware interactive content adaptation
Automatic adaptation of content for mobile devices is a challenging problem because optimal adaptation often depends on the usage semantics of content, as well as the context of u...
Iqbal Mohomed, Jim Chengming Cai, Sina Chavoshi, E...