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IWANN
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Easing the Smart Home: Translating Human Hierarchies to Intelligent Environments
Abstract. Ubiquitous computing research have extended traditional environments in the so–called Intelligent Environments. All of them use their capabilities for pursuing their in...
Manuel García-Herranz, Pablo A. Haya, Xavie...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Toward model free atmospheric sensing by aerial robot networks in strong wind fields
Abstract—This paper presents a system for in situ atmospheric sensing using an aerial robot system in the presence of a strong wind field. The geostatistical concept of the vari...
Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura, Eric W. Frew, Ute C....
WCNC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Physical Carrier Sensing Outage in Single Hop IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks with Slowly Moving Stations
—Physical Carrier Sensing plays a crucial role in the effectiveness of CSMA-based MAC protocols, yet its properties and impact on the system performance under slow fading channel...
Jin Sheng, Kenneth S. Vastola
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling the Effect of Transmit Power and Physical Carrier Sense in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
—In this paper, we extend both Bianchi’s and Kumar’s models and characterize the channel activities governed by IEEE 802.11 DCF in multi-hop wireless networks from the perspe...
Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung
ALGOSENSORS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Target Counting under Minimal Sensing: Complexity and Approximations
We consider the problem of counting a set of discrete point targets using a network of sensors under a minimalistic model. Each sensor outputs a single integer, the number of disti...
Sorabh Gandhi, Rajesh Kumar 0003, Subhash Suri