Abstract--We propose "mode switch", an adaptive loadsensitive solution that supports both an energy-efficient operation mode for transmitting normal sensor data and an Qo...
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), data gathering using mobile sinks typically incurs constant propagation of sink location indication messages to guide the direction of data repor...
Xinxin Liu, Han Zhao, Xin Yang, Xiaolin Li, Ning W...
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...
Reverse pricing is a market mechanism under which a consumer's bid for a product leads to a sale if the bid exceeds a hidden acceptance threshold the seller has set in advanc...
We define the weight of an integer N to be the smallest w such that N can be represented as w i=1 i2ci , with 1,..., w{1,-1}. Since arithmetic modulo a prime of low weight is parti...