Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
In this paper, we propose a novel nonparametric modeling technique, namely Space Kernel Analysis (SKA), as a result of the definition of the space kernel. We analyze the uncertai...
Indoor ranging and location in WLAN is possible through obtaining Round-Trip-Time (RTT) measurements at data link level. This procedure allows using the existing IEEE 802.11 WLAN ...
Distributed peer-to-peer systems rely on voluntary participation of peers to effectively manage a storage pool. In such systems, data is generally replicated for performance and a...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, An...
One of the central problems in video transmission over lossy channels is the choice of source and channel coding rates to allocate the available transmission rate optimally. In th...