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Mercury: a scalable publish-subscribe system for Internet games
Bharambe A., Rao S., Seshan S. Network and system support for games (Proceedings of the first workshop, Bruanschweig, Germany, Apr 16-17, 2002) 3-9, 2002. Type: Proceedings
Online computer games are becoming very popular. From the point of view of research, multiplayer games are the most interesting online games, mainly because they require special efforts to accommodate a large number of simultaneous pla...
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Jan 23 2004 |
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Computer telephony integration
Yarberry W., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2002. 424 pp. Type: Book (9780849314384)
This is a very useful book, albeit for a limited audience. A typical reader would be the head of the communications department of a medium-sized corporation, who is asked to modernize the telephone system of the corporation....
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Dec 16 2003 |
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Essential ATM standards: RFCs and protocols made practical
Loshin P., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2000. 221 pp. Type: Book (9780471345985)
There are books on ATM standards and on ATM in general. This is not one of them. It devotes fewer than 16 pages to a description of ATM. Amazingly, the author devotes pages 9 through 82 to the Internet Society bodies and to its notion ...
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Apr 1 2000 |
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The wireless Net
Fowler D. netWorker: The Craft of Network Computing 1(2): 24-34, 1997. Type: Article
This easy-to-read introduction to wireless communications is clearly targeted toward lay readers. I recommend it to those who want to learn the key buzzwords in 5 to 10 minutes....
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Sep 1 1998 |
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Mobile power management for wireless communication networks
Rulnick J., Bambos N. Wireless Networks 3(1): 3-14, 1997. Type: Article
How to extend the life of a battery powering a mobile communications device, such as a personal communications system (PCS) station or cellular phone, is of great relevance to users, equipment manufacturers, and service providers. Thou...
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Aug 1 1998 |
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Personal communications systems applications
Ricci F., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. Type: Book (9780132558785)
The preface informs us that this book was not actually written by Ricci, but merely edited by him. The other (nontrivial) statement made in the preface is that “the goal of this book is to provide the reader with state-of-the...
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Apr 1 1998 |
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Algorithms and data structures
Bowman C., Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia, PA, 1994. Type: Book (9780030967023)
The preface promises a book that is intended for use in a one- or two-semester undergraduate course; focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of algorithm development; does not present algorithms in a shopping-list format; and...
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Apr 1 1996 |
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Geometric range searching
Matoušek J. ACM Computing Surveys 26(4): 422-461, 1994. Type: Article
Matousˇek presents this excellent paper as a survey of algorithms for answering range queries. It presents a large number of algorithms and theoretical results (mainly bounds). This paper will attract readers interested in ra...
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Dec 1 1995 |
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Finding a maximum-genus graph imbedding
Furst M., Gross J., McGeoch L. Journal of the ACM 35(3): 523-534, 1988. Type: Article
The problem of finding the maximum genus embedding of a graph has received quite a bit of attention recently. This paper presents the first polynomial-time algorithm solving this problem. The authors combine the advances made recently ...
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Apr 1 1989 |
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Unobstructed shortest paths in polyhedral environments
Akman V. (ed), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1987. Type: Book (9789780387176291)
Akman’s book presents recent advances in solving in three-dimensional Euclidean space a problem known as FINDPATH. It is a good source of inspiration for researchers willing to attack non-trivial problems in 3-D geometry, as ...
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Mar 1 1988 |
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