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    • Perspectives on the CAP Theorem 

      Gilbert, Seth; Lynch, Nancy Ann (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-02)
      Almost twelve years ago, in 2000, Eric Brewer introduced the idea that there is a fundamental trade-off between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. This trade-off, which has become known as the CAP Theorem, ...
    • Engineering the Virtual Node Layer for Reactive MANET Routing 

      Wu, Jiang; Griffeth, Nancy; Newport, Calvin Charles; Lynch, Nancy Ann (2011-08)
      The VNLayer approach simplifies software development for MANET by providing the developers an abstraction of a network divided into fixed geographical regions, each containing a virtual server for network services. In this ...
    • Environment Characterization for Non-Recontaminating Frontier-Based Robotic Exploration 

      Volkov, Mikhail; Cornejo Collado, Alex; Lynch, Nancy Ann; Rus, Daniela L. (Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011-11)
      This paper addresses the problem of obtaining a concise description of a physical environment for robotic exploration. We aim to determine the number of robots required to clear an environment using non-recontaminating ...