The increasing number of wireless devices operating in unlicensed spectrum motivates the development intelligent adaptive approaches to access. We consider decentralized contention-based medium access for base stations (BSs) on shared spectrum, where each BS autonomously decides whether or not transmit a given resource. contention decision attempts maximize its own downlink throughput, but rath...

Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively militarized state a society that traditionally maintains relations with dead. This key to understanding conflicts in over bones of unidentified war On one hand, such can challenge state's sovereignty when it assumes responsibility taking care them. other they exert strong p...

In parallel systems it is possible for several processors to request concurrent access to a shared data structure such as a synchronization variable. Such an access pattern causes what is known as hotspot contention. In shared-memory multiprocessor systems that use a multistage interconnection network, hot-spot contention may result in "tree saturation" that degrades the system performance. It ...