—In the future smart city, new information and communication technologies will enable a better management of the available resources. The future smart grid infrastructure is emer...
Crosscutting concerns are pervasive in embedded software, because of the various constraints imposed by the environment and the stringent QOS requirements on the system. This pape...
Thomas Cottenier, Aswin van den Berg, Tzilla Elrad
—In this paper, the performance of the ALOHA and CSMA MAC protocols are analyzed in spatially distributed wireless networks. The main system objective is correct reception of pac...
Abstract-- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require energyef cient protocols to improve the network lifetime. In this work, we adopt a cross-layer strategy that considers routing an...
—E-limited (or K-limited) scheduling is attractive because its performance is close to that of the exhaustive scheduling which is proven to be the optimal polling scheme for symm...