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EWSN
2006
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
f-MAC: A Deterministic Media Access Control Protocol Without Time Synchronization
Nodes in a wireless network transmit messages through a shared medium. Thus, a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol is necessary to regulate and coordinate medium access. For some a...
André M. Barroso, Cormac J. Sreenan, Utz Ro...
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Giving the caller the finger: collaborative responsibility for cellphone interruptions
We present a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in, the phone first...
Stefan Marti, Chris Schmandt
WCNC
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
WiFlex: Multi-Channel Cooperative Protocols for Heterogeneous Wireless Devices
—1 In ISM bands, many wireless protocols proliferate such as 802.11, Bluetooth, and ZigBee. However, these incompatible protocols create complex coexistence and connectivity prob...
Jiwoong Lee, Jeonghoon Mo, Tran Minh Trung, Jean C...
ALGOSENSORS
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Counting Targets with Mobile Sensors in an Unknown Environment
Abstract. We consider the problem of counting the number of indistinguishable targets using a simple binary sensing model. Our setting includes an unknown number of point targets i...
Beat Gfeller, Matús Mihalák, Subhash...
HYBRID
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
On Event Based State Estimation
To reduce the amount of data transfer in networked control systems and wireless sensor networks, measurements are usually taken only when an event occurs, rather than at each synch...
Joris Sijs, Mircea Lazar