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ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
SRVF: An Energy-Efficient Link Layer Protocol for Reliable Transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— The 802.15.4 WSN standard provides optional reliability through positive acknowledgments. Since positive-ACKs are not designed for energy efficiency, there is significa...
Adnan Iqbal, Khurram Shahzad, Syed Ali Khayam
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Lifetime Improvement in Wireless Sensor Networks via Collaborative Beamforming and Cooperative Transmission
: Collaborative beamforming (CB) and cooperative transmission (CT) have recently emerged as communication techniques that can make effective use of collaborative/cooperative nodes ...
Zhu Han, H. Vincent Poor
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Developing an Efficient Region Growing Engine for Image Segmentation
Image segmentation is a crucial part of image processing applications. Currently available approaches require significant computer power to handle large images. We present an effi...
Emanuel Gofman
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ADHOC
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A probabilistic algorithm for efficient and robust data propagation in wireless sensor networks
We study the problem of data propagation in sensor networks, comprised of a large number of very small and low-cost nodes, capable of sensing, communicating and computing. The dis...
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Tassos Dimitriou, Sotiris...