This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...
Recent technological advances have opened up several distributed real-time applications involving battery-driven embedded devices with local processing and wireless communication ...
Scheduling in an environment with constraints of many different types is known to be a hard problem. We tackle this problem for an integrated steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, using ...
—As sensor networks are finding widespread use across many applications, designers increasingly must not only focus on application development, but also on sensor network optimiz...
Jeff Hiner, Ashish Shenoy, Roman L. Lysecky, Susan...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...