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PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Tracking and Annotation in Skills-Based Learning Environments
This paper outlines a series of experiments looking at the annotation and subsequent analysis of skills-based learning and teaching in the domain of Nursing. The experiments used ...
Mark J. Weal, Danius T. Michaelides, Kevin R. Page...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Localizing Jammers in Wireless Networks
Abstract—Wireless communication is susceptible to radio interference and jamming attacks, which prevent the reception of communications. Most existing anti-jamming work does not ...
Hongbo Liu, Wenyuan Xu, Yingying Chen, Zhenhua Liu
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A Middleware Service for Coordinated Adaptation of Communication Services in Groups of Devices
—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most app...
Jordan Janeiro, Thomas Springer, Markus Endler
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Opening Pervasive Computing to the Masses Using the SEAP Middleware
— The increasing availability of sensing devices has made the possibility of context-aware pervasive computing applications real. However, constructing this software requires ext...
Seth Holloway, Drew Stovall, Jorge Lara-Garduno, C...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
An Infrastructure for Interactive and Playful Learning in Augmented Toy Environments
In this paper we describe our approach to realize a pervasive (computing) learning environment for children based on augmented toys: traditional toys that are equipped with pervas...
Steve Hinske, Marc Langheinrich
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Delaunay-Triangulation Based Complete Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
—One of the major issues in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is how to cover an interested area. In this paper, we consider the area coverage problem for variable sensing radii WS...
Chinh T. Vu, Yingshu Li
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
QoS Enabled Mobility Support for Mesh Networks
Abstract—Existing solutions for building wireless mesh networks suffer from reduced efficiency. This is due to lack of reliable self-configuration procedures that can dynamical...
Dario Gallucci, Silvia Giordano
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
HIPS: A Calibration-less Hybrid Indoor Positioning System Using Heterogeneous Sensors
—Positioning is a crucial task in pervasive computing, aimed at estimating the user’s positions to provide location-based services. In this paper, we study an interesting probl...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang, ...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Detection of Replicas with Deployment Knowledge in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Due to the unattended nature of wireless sensor networks, an adversary can easily capture and compromise sensor nodes, generate replicas of those compromised nodes, and mount a ...
Jun-Won Ho, Donggang Liu, Matthew Wright, Sajal K....