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Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance

Uber Engineering

Uber operates on a global scale across more than 600 cities, with our apps relying entirely on wireless connectivity from over 4,500 mobile carriers.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? Reliability will be an even bigger problem than latency. I don’t, do you? So where is 5G useful?

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. To foster research in these categories, we provide an overview of each of these categories to understand the implications on workload analysis and HW/SW architecture research.