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ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Brief Announcement: Universal Data Aggregation Trees for Sensor Networks in Low Doubling Metrics
Abstract. We describe a novel approach for constructing a single spanning tree for data aggregation towards a sink node. The tree is universal in the sense that it is static and in...
Srinivasagopalan Srivathsan, Costas Busch, S. Sith...
WAOA
2010
Springer
236views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
The Power of Uncertainty: Bundle-Pricing for Unit-Demand Customers
We study an extension of the unit-demand pricing problem in which the seller may offer bundles of items. If a customer buys such a bundle she is guaranteed to get one item out of i...
Patrick Briest, Heiko Röglin
PODS
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  PODS 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Sweep coverage with mobile sensors
Many efforts have been made for addressing coverage problems in sensor networks. They fall into two categories, full coverage and barrier coverage, featured as static coverage. In...
Wei-Fang Cheng, Mo Li, Kebin Liu, Yunhao Liu, Xian...
SIAMCOMP
2002
142views more  SIAMCOMP 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
On Binary Searching with Nonuniform Costs
Let us consider an ordered vector A[1 : n]. If the cost of testing each position is similar, then the standard binary search is the best strategy to search the vector. This is true...
Eduardo Sany Laber, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Artur...