FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value...Alfons Kemper From Communications of the ACM | June 2023
FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the...Jingyu Zhou, Meng Xu, Alexander Shraer, Bala Namasivayam, Alex Miller, Evan Tschannen, Steve Atherton, Andrew J. Beamon, Rusty Sears, John Leach, Dave Rosenthal, Xin Dong, Will Wilson, Ben Collins, David Scherer, Alec Grieser, Yang Liu, Alvin Moore, Bhaskar Muppana, Xiaoge Su, Vishesh Yadav From Communications of the ACM | June 2023
"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network...Luca Mottola From Communications of the ACM | April 2023
We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.
Jonathan Oostvogels, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Danny Hughes From Communications of the ACM | April 2023
The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat...Karthik Dantu From Communications of the ACM | November 2022
In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.
Sujay Narayana, R. Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S. Rao, Luca Mottola, T. V. Prabhakar From Communications of the ACM | November 2022
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification...Athina Markopoulou From Communications of the ACM | October 2022
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long...Iman Akbari, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Leni Ven, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau, Stephane Tuffin From Communications of the ACM | October 2022
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely...Falko Dressler From Communications of the ACM | September 2022
We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.
Francesco Restuccia, Tommaso Melodia From Communications of the ACM | September 2022
We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.
Martin Aumüller, Sariel Har-Peled, Sepideh Mahabadi, Rasmus Pagh, Francesco Silvestri From Communications of the ACM | August 2022
In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair...Qin Zhang From Communications of the ACM | August 2022
"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on...Bill Howe From Communications of the ACM | July 2022
In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.
Tarique Siddiqui, Paul Luh, Zesheng Wang, Karrie Karahalios, Aditya G. Parameswaran From Communications of the ACM | July 2022
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact...Fabio Vandin From Communications of the ACM | July 2022
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing...Walid Krichene, Steffen Rendle From Communications of the ACM | July 2022