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TWC
2008
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Exclusive-Region Based Scheduling Algorithms for UWB WPAN
With the capability of supporting very high data rate services in a short range, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is appealing to multimedia applications in future wireless personal...
Kuang-Hao Liu, Lin Cai, Xuemin Shen
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
The SkyLoc Floor Localization System
When a mobile user dials 911, a key to arriving to the emergency scene promptly is knowing the location of the mobile user. This paper presents SkyLoc, a GSM fingerprinting-based ...
Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightowe...
PERCOM
2003
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Self-Adaptive Leasing for Jini
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Kevin Bowers, Kevin Mills, Scott Rose
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
HIPS: A Calibration-less Hybrid Indoor Positioning System Using Heterogeneous Sensors
—Positioning is a crucial task in pervasive computing, aimed at estimating the user’s positions to provide location-based services. In this paper, we study an interesting probl...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang, ...
BTW
2007
Springer
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Reconsidering Consistency Management in Shared Data Spaces for Emergency and Rescue Applications
: Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. These operations often have to be performed in environments where no communication infrastruc...
Thomas Plagemann, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, Vera Goebel