In this article, we outline a research agenda for developing protocols and algorithms for densely populated RFID based systems covering a wide geographic area. This will need mult...
We propose to use mobile phones carried by people in their everyday lives as mobile sensors to track mobile events. We argue that sensor-enabled mobile phones are best suited to de...
Gahng-Seop Ahn, Mirco Musolesi, Hong Lu, Reza Olfa...
Time synchronization is an essential service in distributed computing and control systems. It is used to enable tasks such as synchronized data sampling and accurate time-offlight...
Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Jonathan Friedma...
Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...
We consider sensor scheduling as the optimal observability problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP). This model fits to the cases where a Markov process ...