Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
In-network aggregation has been proposed as one method for reducing energy consumption in sensor networks. In this paper, we explore two ideas related to further reducing energy co...
Mohamed A. Sharaf, Jonathan Beaver, Alexandros Lab...
Automatic folksonomy construction from tags has attracted much attention recently. However, inferring hierarchical relations between concepts from tags has a drawback in that it i...
Abstract— This paper presents an analytical model for evaluating the capability of wireless LANs (WLANs) to provision quantitative quality of service (QoS) guarantees. We conside...
Yu Cheng, Lin Cai, Xinhua Ling, Wei Song, Weihua Z...
In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...