— In multi-hop ad hoc networks, the efficiency of a medium access control protocol under heavy traffic load depends mainly on its ability to schedule a large number of simultan...
A surveillance area is to be monitored using a grid network of heterogeneous sensor nodes. There are two types of nodes; type 0 nodes which perform sensing and relaying of data wit...
Vivek Mhatre, Catherine Rosenberg, Daniel Kofman, ...
— Critically ill new born babies admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are extremely tiny and vulnerable to external disturbance. Smart Jacket proposed in this pape...
Sibrecht Bouwstra, Wei Chen, Loe M. G. Feijs, Sida...
New technological trends lead to the increasing use of network technologies in automation. Especially the Ethernet with TCP/IP and wireless networks find growing acceptance. The r...
Imagine a future environment where networks of agents - people, robots and software agents - interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice,...