Abstract— Throughout the world, GSM cellular mobile networks are being upgraded to support the “always-on” General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Despite the apparent availabil...
Rajiv Chakravorty, Sachin Katti, Ian Pratt, Jon Cr...
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, the output of each MapReduce task and job is materialized to ...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
The basic operation in such a network is the systematic gathering (with or without in-network aggregation) and transmitting of sensed data to a base station for further processing....
—In many applications, it is a basic operation for the sink to periodically collect reports from all sensors. Since the data gathering process usually proceeds for many rounds, i...
Geospatial image data obtained by satellites and aircraft are increasingly important to a wide range of applications, such as disaster management, climatology, and environmental m...