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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
UAV swarm coordination using cooperative control for establishing a wireless communications backbone
In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...
Achudhan Sivakumar, Colin Keng-Yan Tan
MSWIM
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling wireless shadow networks
In case of natural disasters or intentional attacks, telecommunication networks often get heavily damaged and current resilience schemes have proven to be insufficient for rapid r...
Filip De Turck, Aurel A. Lazar
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
SciNews online: scaffolding the construction of scientific explanations
Middle and high-school science teachers have traditionally introduced current events in the classroom to leverage news topics relevant to the curriculum, such as the Sumatra Tsuna...
Sebastian de la Chica
ICNP
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Mobile Distributed Information Retrieval for Highly-Partitioned Networks
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Katrina M. Hanna, Brian Neil Levine, R. Manmatha
WD
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Content Centric Networking in tactical and emergency MANETs
Abstract--Reliable and secure content distribution in a disruptive environment is a critical challenge due to high mobile and lossy channels. Traditional IP networking and wireless...
Soon-Young Oh, Davide Lau, Mario Gerla