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PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Digital Wall: A Power-efficient Solution for Location-based Data Sharing
Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Sinno Jialin Pan, Vincent Wen...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
TIGRA: Timely Sensor Data Collection Using Distributed Graph Coloring
In this paper we present a protocol for sensor applications that require periodic collection of raw data reports from the entire network in a timely manner. We formulate the probl...
Lilia Paradis, Qi Han
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improving Emergency Response to Mass Casualty Incidents
Mass causality incidents generate a sequence of response events from the emergency services, requiring the allocation and use of resources in a timely fashion. In this paper we de...
Marcus Lucas da Silva, Vassilis Kostakos, Mitsuji ...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An Autonomic Context Management System for Pervasive Computing
Abstract—Context-aware applications adapt to changing computing environments or changing user circumstances/tasks. Context information that supports such adaptations is provided ...
Peizhao Hu, Jadwiga Indulska, Ricky Robinson
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
WAITER: A Wearable Personal Healthcare and Emergency Aid System
The emerging pervasive computing is regarded as a promising solution to the systems of personal healthcare and emergency aid, which can monitor personal health status in a real-ti...
Wanhong Wu, Jiannong Cao, Yuan Zheng, Yong-Ping Zh...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
The Speed of Information Propagation in Large Wireless Networks
Abstract—This paper investigates the speed limit of information propagation in large wireless networks, which provides fundamental understanding of the fastest information transp...
Yi Xu, Wenye Wang
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Practical SNR-Guided Rate Adaptation
—Rate adaptation is critical to the system performance of wireless networks. Typically, rate adaptation is considered as a
Jiansong Zhang, Kun Tan, Jun Zhao, Haitao Wu, Yong...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Computing Capacity of Wireless Networks with SINR Constraints
—A fundamental problem in wireless networks is to estimate its throughput capacity - given a set of wireless nodes, and a set of connections, what is the maximum rate at which da...
Deepti Chafekar, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marat...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Routing over Interconnected Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Intermittent Connections
—The recent years have seen an enormous advance in wireless communication technology and a wide spread of various types of wireless networks. It requires effective inter-networki...
Hany Samuel, Weihua Zhuang, Bruno R. Preiss
ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
An MDP-Based Approach for Multipath Data Transmission over Wireless Networks
—Maintaining performance and reliability in wireless networks is a challenging task due to the nature of wireless channels. Multipath data transmission has been used in wired sce...
Vinh Bui, Weiping Zhu, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pesc...