Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In...
Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish L...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
The ease of deployment of battery-powered and mobile systems is pushing the network edge far from powered infrastructures. A primary challenge in building untethered systems is of...
Nilanjan Banerjee, Jacob Sorber, Mark D. Corner, S...
The performance of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) often suffers from link-layer frame losses caused by noise, interference, multipath, attenuation, and user mobility. We obs...
Allen K. L. Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, J...
The 802.11 IEEE Standard has enabled low cost and effective wireless LAN services (WLAN). With the sales and deployment of WLAN based networks exploding, many people believe that ...