In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. W...
Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus P. J. F...
The Internet is widely valued for distributing control over information to a lateral network of individuals, but it is not clear how these networks can most effectively organize t...
Cristen Torrey, Moira Burke, Matthew L. Lee, Anind...
Simulations, experiments and observatories are generating a deluge of scientific data. Even more staggering is the ever growing application demand to process and assimilate these...
Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Douglas Thain, Xiaosong M...
To minimize the execution time of a sensing task over a multi-hop hierarchical sensor network, we present a coordinated scheduling method following the divisible load scheduling p...