Searchius is a collaborative search engine that produces search results based solely on user provided web-related data. We discuss the architecture of this system and how it compares to current state-of-the-art search...
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Searchius is a collaborative search engine that produces search results based solely on user provided web-related data. We discuss the architecture of this system and how it compares to current state-of-the-art search engines. We show that the global users' preference over pages can be efficiently used as a metric of page quality, and that the inherent organization of the collected data can be used to discover related URLs. We also conduct an extensive experimental study, based on the web related data of 36483 users, to analyze the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of user collected URL collections, to investigate how well the users URL collections cover the web and discover the characteristics that affect the quality of the search results under the proposed setting.
Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS), introduced in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 6, is a point-to-multipoint downlink bearer service that addresses the need for the efficient usage of ...
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Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS), introduced in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 6, is a point-to-multipoint downlink bearer service that addresses the need for the efficient usage of the expensive radio resources. Power control is one of the most important aspects in MBMS due to the fact that Node B's transmission power is a limited resource and must be shared among all MBMS users in a cell. Consequently, the analysis of transmitted power plays a fundamental role in the planning and optimization process of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) radio access networks. This paper investigates several factors affecting Node B's transmission power levels such as, cell deployment, propagation models, Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, users' distributions and mobility issues. Finally, different transport channels for the transmission of the multicast data over the UTRAN interfaces are considered.
Wireless sensor networks are comprised of a vast number of ultra-small autonomous computing, communication and sensing devices, with restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to accomplish a large ...
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Given two replication schemes Xold and Xnew, the Replica Transfer Scheduling Problem (RTSP) aims at reaching Xnew, starting from Xold, with minimal implementation cost. In this paper we generalize the problem descript...
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We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view of specific peers, while in reality be...
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(纸本)1424408024
We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view of specific peers, while in reality being far from optimal from a global perspective. Thus, first we define the requirements and study the appropriateness of various statistical metrics for measuring load distribution fairness towards these requirements. The metric proposed as most appropriate is the Gini coefficient (G). Second, we develop novel distributed sampling algorithms to compute G on-line, with high precision, efficiently, and scalably. Third, we show how G can readily be utilized on-line by higher-level algorithms which can now know when to best intervene to correct load imbalances. Our analysis and experiments testify for the efficiency and accuracy of these algorithms, permitting the online use of a rich and reliable metric, conveying a global perspective of the distribution.
The content-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) paradigm for system design is becoming increasingly popular, offering unique benefits for a large number of data-intensive applications. Coupled with the peer-to-peer tech...
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(纸本)1424408024
The content-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) paradigm for system design is becoming increasingly popular, offering unique benefits for a large number of data-intensive applications. Coupled with the peer-to-peer technology, it can serve as a central building block for such applications deployed over a large-scale network infrastructure. A key problem toward the creation of large-scale content-based pub/sub infrastructures relates to dealing efficiently with continuous queries (subscriptions) with rich predicates on string attributes; in this work we study the problem of efficiently and accurately matching substring queries to incoming events.
In this work we study the combination of multicost routing and variable transmission power in wireless ad-hoc networks. In multicost routing, each link is assigned a cost vector consisting of several parameters. These...
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In this work we study the combination of multicost routing and variable transmission power in wireless ad-hoc networks. In multicost routing, each link is assigned a cost vector consisting of several parameters. These parameters are treated separately and are combined at the end of the algorithm using various optimization functions, corresponding to different routing schemes, for selecting the optimal path. The cost parameters we use are the hop count, the interference caused, the node residual energies, and the node transmission powers. We assume that nodes can use power control to adjust their transmission power to the desired level. The experiments conducted show that the combination of multicost routing and adjustable transmission power can lead to reduced interference and energy consumption, improving network performance and lifetime.
Data propagation in wireless sensor networks is usually performed as a multihop process. To deliver a single message, the resources of many sensor nodes are used and a lot of energy is spent. Recently, a novel approac...
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Data propagation in wireless sensor networks is usually performed as a multihop process. To deliver a single message, the resources of many sensor nodes are used and a lot of energy is spent. Recently, a novel approach is catching momentum because of important applications; that of having a mobile sink move inside the network area and collects the data with low energy cost. Here we extend this line of research by proposing and evaluating three new protocols. Our protocols are novel in a) investigating the impact of having many mobile sinks; b) in weak models with restricted mobility, proposing and evaluating a mix of static and mobile sinks; and c) proposing a distributed protocol that tends to equally spread the sinks in the network to further improve performance. Our protocols are simple, based on randomization and assume locally obtainable information. We perform an extensive evaluation via simulation; our findings demonstrate that our solutions scale very well with respect to the number of sinks and significantly reduce energy consumption and delivery delay
We develop four parametric EEG models to estimate current sources that are spatially distributed on a surface. Such sources exist for example in studies of epilepsy or induced spreading depression. We provide forward ...
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It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or-even worse-purely lexical level. Using aspect-oriented programming, changes can be modul...
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It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or-even worse-purely lexical level. Using aspect-oriented programming, changes can be modularized and made reapplicable. In this paper, selected change types in web applications are analyzed. They are expressed in terms of general change types which, in turn, are implemented using aspect-oriented programming. Some of general change types match aspect-oriented design patterns or their combinations.
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