Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...
— In this paper, we develop contention-based medium access control (MAC) schemes for both best-effort data transmissions and delay-sensitive multimedia transmissions over WLANs. ...
Fanglei Sun, Victor O. K. Li, Zhifeng Diao, Zhengy...
We introduce a new type of query, called a real-time continuous query (RCQ), that captures the real-time requirements of processing data streams. We develop techniques to efficien...
Dhananjay Kulkarni, Chinya V. Ravishankar, Mitch C...
Abstract. The advent of context-aware computing requires a new paradigm in information management. Context information in a computing environment will take the form of disparate an...
This work studies the problem of distributed classification in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. While there has been a significant amount of work in distributed classification, most o...