In this paper, we consider the use of multiple mobile software agents to perform different tasks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To this regard, determining the number of mobil...
Falls are a major health risk that diminish the quality of life among elderly people. With the elderly population surging, especially with aging "baby boomers", fall dete...
Abstract--We evaluate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. The embedded nodes do not know their abs...
Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel B. Walker, Tucker R. Balch
Power consumption of the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) has recently become a key challenge. In particular, actions to improve energy-efficiency of Internet...
Carla Panarello, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra...
In recent years we have witnessed a great interest in large distributed computing platforms, also known as clouds. While these systems offer enormous computing power, they are howe...