We have identified a fundamental operator in wireless networks that we named the local leader election in which the goal is to select a node in a spatially close neighborhood. We ...
Gilbert Chen, Joel W. Branch, Boleslaw K. Szymansk...
We present a new (1 + ε)-spanner for sets of n points in Rd . Our spanner has size O(n/εd−1 ) and maximum degree O(logd n). The main advantage of our spanner is that it can be...
Traditionally, distributed computing problems have been solved by partitioning data into chunks able to be handled by commodity hardware. Such partitioning is not possible in case...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
— Recently, Rao-Blackwellized particle filters have become a popular tool to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping problem. This technique applies a particle filter i...
Giorgio Grisetti, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Cyrill Stach...