We address the polling problem in social networks where individuals collaborate to choose the most favorite choice amongst some options, without divulging their vote and publicly exposing their potentially malicious actions. Given this social interaction model, Guerraoui et al. [1], [2] recently proposed polling protocols that do not rely on any central authority or cryptography system, using a...

In this paper we focus on a class of polling systems encountered while modeling a class of ferry based wireless local area networks (FWLAN). A ferry facilitates local communication between the nodes (or users) as well as the communication between the nodes and a base station (BS) that serves as the gateway with the external world. The ferry, while walking in a predetermined cyclic path, communi...

Wireless local area networks are a promising solution to support advanced data services in mobile environments. The IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard is emerging as a mature technology to support delay sensitive network services. In order to support these services the standard has proposed the use of a polling scheme; however, existing polling schemes require high communication overheads or suf...

In this paper we ask the question: how well do pre–election polls forecast the actual results of elections in the U.S.? 1 The question is interesting for a number of reasons. First, even polling data suggests about 1/3 of polling respondents do not believe that polls work in " the best interests of the general public. " 2 The situation is such that even many national governments have undertaken...

The paper proposed the priority polling control mechanism of the unit material combinations sorting lines, and sorters operating process is understood to be the arrival process of orders, service process of each sorter sorts orders and the conversion process between sorting machines. Control process, sorters of the combined sorting lines are divided into the priority sorters and ordinary sorter...

In this letter, a new segment-level speech/nonspeech classification method based on the Poisson polling technique is proposed. The proposed method makes two modifications from the baseline Poisson polling method to further improve the classification accuracy. One of them is to employ Poisson mixture models to more accurately represent various segmental patterns of the observed frequencies for f...

The performance of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for a system with N connections sharing a common Active Queue Management (AQM) is analyzed for both AdditiveIncrease Multiplicative-Decrease (AIMD) and MultiplicativeIncrease Multiplicative-Decrease (MIMD) control mechanisms, where reduction signals follow either a cyclic or a probabilistic polling-type procedure. The Laplace-Stieltjes Tr...

Recently proposed voter-verifiable protocols provide encrypted paper receipts to voters, who may later check that these receipts are in the electronic ballot box. This paper describes an enhancement that allows the voter to electronically transmit, from the polling booth, her encrypted receipt to an external verifier, who may perform the check on her behalf. It uses CAPTCHAs (techniques whose s...

This paper considers the stability of BMAP/GI/1 periodic polling models with mixed service disciplines. The server attends the N stations in a repeating sequence of stages. Customers arrive to the stations according to batch Markov arrival processes (BMAP s). The service times of the stations are general independent and identically distributed. The characterization of global stability of the sy...

Political polls achieve their results by sampling a small number of potential voters rather than the population as a whole. This leads to “sampling error” which most polling agencies dutifully report. But factors such as nonrepresentative samples, question wording and nonresponse can produce non-sampling errors. While pollsters are aware of such errors, they are difficult to quantify and seldom...