— In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the hidden and the exposed terminal problems affect the throughput of the Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. Several MAC schemes have be...
We introduce different mobile network applications and show to which degree the concept of database transactions is required within the applications. We show properties of transact...
—Location-based Social Networks (LSNs) allow users to see where their friends are, to search location-tagged content within their social graph, and to meet others nearby. The rec...
Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data fr...
Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Samuel...
Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...