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PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Cardinality Estimation for Large-scale RFID Systems
Counting or estimating the number of tags is crucial for large-scale RFID systems. The use of multiple readers was recently proposed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in ...
Chen Qian, Hoilun Ngan, Yunhao Liu
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Composition and Generalization of Context Data for Privacy Preservation
This paper presents preliminary results on anonymization and obfuscation techniques to preserve users' privacy in context-aware service provisioning. The techniques are based...
Linda Pareschi, Daniele Riboni, Alessandra Agostin...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Safety Enhancing Mechanisms for Pervasive Computing Systems in Intelligent Environments
Pervasive computing systems provide personalized and intimate services to improve users' quality of life by integrating computation and communication into the environments. Wi...
Hen-I Yang, Abdelsalam Helal
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Kinds of Contexts and their Impact on Semantic Similarity Measurement
Semantic similarity measurement gained attention over the last years as a non-standard inference service for various kinds of knowledge representations including description logics...
Krzysztof Janowicz
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Load Sharing and Bandwidth Control in Mobile P2P Wireless Sensor Networks
In this paper, we investigate the problem of resource constraints in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Wireless Sensor Networks (MP2P WSNs). We propose a scheme to load share tasks among peer s...
Elisa Rondini, Stephen Hailes, Li Li
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
High-level Programming Support for Robust Pervasive Computing Applications
In this paper, we present a domain-specific Interface Definition Language (IDL) and its compiler, dedicated to the development of pervasive computing applications. Our IDL provide...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Nicolas Palix, Char...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
On-demand Video Streaming in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Providing on-demand video streaming services to large numbers of nodes in mobile wireless networks is a challenging task. We propose MOVi (Mobile Opportunistic Video-on-demand), a...
Hayoung Yoon, JongWon Kim, Feiselia Tan, Robert Hs...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Environment-Awareness: Quantitative Processing of Context Changes
Comparing context of different entities is not easy at all. Since context depends on the situation of a particular entity it can be understood in different ways by various entitie...
Andreas Heil, Martin Gaedke
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Towards Robust Low Cost Authentication for Pervasive Devices
Low cost devices such as RFIDs, sensor network nodes, and smartcards are crucial for building the next generation pervasive and ubiquitous networks. The inherent power and footpri...
Erdinç Öztürk, Ghaith Hammouri, B...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Survey of Current Directions in Service Placement in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
Service placement deals with the problem of selecting which node in a network is most suitable for hosting a service that responds to queries from other nodes. Optimally placing s...
Georg Wittenburg, Jochen H. Schiller