Wireless networking and group communication in combination allows groups of dispersed mobile users to collaborate. This paper presents AGENT, a medium access control (MAC) protocol...
— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
In this paper, we investigate and utilize the characteristic of the group movement of objects to achieve energy conservation in the inherently resource-constrained wireless object ...
The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. In applications that use a large number of groups, ...
This paper reports on the emergent use of lightweight text chat to provide important grounding and facilitation information in a large, distributed, ad-hoc group of researchers pa...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Thomas A. Finholt, Daniel B. ...