Situational awareness in emergency response is critical. Knowing the status of the hazards, the rescue workers, and the building occupants, etc., can greatly help the incident comm...
C. Davison, Daniel Massaguer, Lilia Paradis, M. Re...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....
This paper presents a distributed middleware architecture based on a service-oriented approach, to manage high volume sensor events. Event management takes a multi-step operation f...
We investigate the application of a low-cost, pervasively distributed network to plan paths for mobile robots in environments with dynamic obstacles. We consider a heterogeneous s...
Abstract— Mobile radio networks of the IMT-Advanced systems family promise ubiquitous broadband access and high area coverage, with rates of several 100 MBit/s. They claim to gua...