— The IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed for low data rate, short distance and low power communication applications such as Wireless Sensor Networks (...
Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
Mobile devices are treasure boxes of personal information containing user’s context, personal schedule, diary, short messages, photos, and videos. Also, user’s usage informatio...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a distributed opportunistic access scheme for uplink OFDMA systems. The sub-carriers are grouped into several sub-channels. Users access these...
Text-based search using video speech transcripts is a popular approach for granular video retrieval at the shot or story level. However, misalignment of speech and visual tracks, ...