Geographical data broadcasting is suitable for many large scale disseminationbased applications due to its independence of number of users, and thus it can serve as an important part of intelligent information infrastructures for modern cities. In broadcast systems, query response time is greatly affected by the order in which data items are being broadcast. However, existing broadcast ordering...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

This paper presents a low overhead, high performance cache coherence protocol designed to exploit high bandwidth point-to-point and broadcast features of optics. SPEED integrates the virtues of snoopy-based schemes and directory-based schemes into one eecient protocol. Directory-assist is used exclusively for read traac to eliminate unnecessary broadcasts while snoopy-assist is used exclusively...

Independence or simultaneous broadcast is a fundamental tool to achieve security in fault tolerant distributed computing. It allows n players to commit to independently chosen values. In this paper we present a constant round protocol to perform this task under general complexity assumptions. Previous solutions were all O(log n) rounds. In the process we develop a new and stronger formal deenit...

A distributed binary hypothesis testing problem is studied with one observer and two decision centers. The type-II error exponents region is derived for testing against independence when the observer communicates with the two decision centers over one common and two individual noise-free bit pipes. When there is only a common noise-free bit pipe, the type-II error exponents region is derived fo...

By design, mobile computing aims to support numerous expressions of varying interfaces, contexts, and automation. Thus, as mobile computing becomes more prevalent, it is important that designers build systems in support of as many as possible unique, in-use, and user-defined characteristics. We explore these requirements and propose to support them with two existing standardized technologies: H...

We consider the problem of multiple-input singleoutput Broadcast Channels with Rayleigh fading where the transmitter has access to delayed knowledge of the channel state information. We first characterize the capacity region of this channel with two users to within constant number of bits for all values of the transmit power. The proposed signaling strategy utilizes the delayed knowledge of the...