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ICUMT
2009
13 years 5 months ago
On the adaptivity of today's Energy-Efficient MAC protocols under varying traffic conditions
Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major por...
Philipp Hurni, Torsten Braun
PERVASIVE
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Collaborative Localization: Enhancing WiFi-Based Position Estimation with Neighborhood Links in Clusters
Abstract. Location-aware services can benefit from accurate and reliable indoor location tracking. The widespread adoption of 802.11x wireless LAN as the network infrastructure cre...
Li-Wei Chan, Ji-Rung Chiang, Yi-Chao Chen, Chia-na...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Design, Implementation and Characterization of a Cooperative Communications System
Cooperative communications is a class of techniques which seek to improve reliability and throughput in wireless systems by pooling the resources of distributed nodes. While coope...
Patrick Murphy, Ashutosh Sabharwal
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Composite Social Network for Predicting Mobile Apps Installation
We have carefully instrumented a large portion of the population living in a university graduate dormitory by giving participants Android smart phones running our sensing software...
Wei Pan, Nadav Aharony, Alex Pentland
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Reincarnating PCs with portable SoulPads
The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on...
Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra...