In this paper we investigate the problem of uneven energy consumptions in a large class of many-to-one sensor networks. In a many-to-one sensor network, all sensor nodes generate ...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...
One of the visions of pervasive computing is using mobile computers to interact with networked devices. A question raised by this vision is: Should the userinterfaces of these dev...
When people interact, they follow distinct rules that coordinate the order of speech, who opens doors, whom and how to greet, and many things more. Such a social codex depends on ...
Mobile ad hoc networks show great potential in emergency response and/or recovery. Such mission-critical applications demand security service be "anywhere", "anytim...