This paper derives exact results for a polling system such as a token bus or token ring with exhaustive service and priority polling. The results can also be used to analyze a terminal controller with a general-service order table. There are N stations in the system and the token is passed among them according to a polling table of length M (>N). Stations are given higher priority by being list...

This study compared clicker technology against mobile polling and the Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) strategy to investigate how these methods may differently affect students’ anxiety, self-efficacy, engagement, academic performance, and attention and relaxation as indicated by brainwave activity. The study utilized a quasi-experimental research design. To assess the differences between the effec...

We present a new model for polling-booth voting: the voter enters the polling booth with a computational assistant which helps her verify that her vote is correctly recorded. The assistant interacts with the voting system while the voter votes on the machine in the polling booth. We present an independentlyverifiable, coercion-resistant protocol based on this model. Unlike all other independent...

We consider the polling problem in a social network where participants care about their reputation: they do not want their vote to be disclosed nor their misbehaving, if any, to be publicly exposed. Assuming this reputation concern, we show that a simple secret sharing scheme, combined with verification procedures, can efficiently enable polling without the need for any central authority or hea...

Network monitoring is one of the most significant functions in network management. In order to measure network elements and services, normally a polling approach is used to help network professionals understand the state of the managed systems in real-time. Given the current rapid growing networks, the information exchanged between network nodes and a central network management system (NMS) cou...

Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) has been extensively researched as the alternative for DRAM-based system, however traditional Controller (MC) cannot efficiently track and schedule operations all memory devices in heterogeneous systems due to different timing requirements complex architecture supports of various technologies. To address this issue, we propose a hybrid framework called POMI (POlling-ba...

This paper describes a polling deregistration protocol for a wireless access communications network which would support interoperability between licensed personal communications services (PCS) and unlicensed-PCS (UPCS). We show how the protocol can be efficiently implemented in the personal access communications system (PACS) for licensed PCS and in the PACS-Unlicensed Version B (PACS-UB). An a...