Pervasive computing applications are increasingly leveraging contextual information from several sources to provide users with behavior appropriate to the environment in which the...
This paper presents a new carrier sensing mechanism called DVCS (Directional Virtual Carrier Sensing) for wireless communication using directional antennas. DVCS does not require ...
Mineo Takai, Jay Martin, Rajive Bagrodia, Aifeng R...
Component-based architectures are the traditional approach cile application specific optimization with reusable abstractions in sensor networks. However, they frequently overwhelm ...
Abstract. The ability to update the program code installed on wireless sensor nodes plays an import role in the highly dynamic environments sensor networks are often deployed in. S...
Andreas Lachenmann, Daniel Minder, Kurt Rothermel,...
el of abstraction by integrating a high-level estimation step. This results in a design loop which is tight led on high level of abstraction (called estimation loop in figure 1). ...