—We present MobiStream— a video streaming system that exploits the perceptual value in video content and the characteristics of the link layer and physical layer channels to en...
The wireless sensor network (WSN) is one of the most promising technologies which helps making our society safe, secure, and comfortable. A WSN as a social infrastructure must tra...
Many wireless sensor network protocols are employing gossipbased message dissemination, where nodes probabilistically forward messages, to reduce message overhead. We are concerne...
Motivated by scheduling in cellular wireless networks and resource allocation in computer systems, we study a service facility with two classes of users having heterogeneous servi...
Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...