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Polling (computer science)

Known as: Poll message, Polled i/o, Busy-wait polling 
Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous… 
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2014
2014
With the ratification of the IEEE 802.11ad amendment to the 802.11 standard in December 2012, a major step has been taken to… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Sweltering in the noonday sun outside Herat’s grand Friday Mosque last May 20, I was excited to see democracy (of a sort) in… 
2002
2002
Teaching the next generation of engineers about the inner workings of GPS receivers is difficult due to the expense of acquiring… 
2000
2000
The design of an efficient MAC protocol is of paramount interest for the definition of a wireless ATM (WATM) access. In the case… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Cable TV has emerged as a promising access network infrastructure for the delivery of voice, video, and high-speed data traffic… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Part 1 The history of political opinion polling in Great Britain, 1937-1979: the early days - founding fathers the middle years… 
1989
1989
Consideration is given to token-passing or polling systems in which the message arrival process, the message transmission time… 
1989
1989
Intrabuilding power lines provide a readily available and easily accessed network for personal computer (PC) communications… 
1986
1986
This paper describes new interprocess communications facilities that have been added to the Locus system [POPEK 81][WALKER 83…