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PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Concurrent Event Detection for Asynchronous Consistency Checking of Pervasive Context
—Contexts, the pieces of information that capture the characteristics of computing environments, are often inconsistent in the dynamic and uncertain pervasive computing environme...
Yu Huang 0002, Xiaoxing Ma, Jiannong Cao, XianPing...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
TreeMAC: Localized TDMA MAC Protocol for Real-time High-data-rate Sensor Networks
—Earlier sensor network MAC protocols focus on energy conservation in low-duty cycle applications, while some recent applications involve real-time high-data-rate signals. This m...
Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang, Behrooz Shirazi, Rich...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Auction-Based Congestion Management for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
—This paper addresses the problem of providing congestion-management for a shared wireless sensor networkbased target tracking system. In many large-scale wireless sensor network...
Lei Chen 0005, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Joel W. Bran...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Event Detection in Pervasive Spaces
Abstract—In this paper, we consider privacy challenges in eventdriven pervasive spaces where multimedia streams captured by sensors embedded in the infrastructure are used to det...
Bijit Hore, Jehan Wickramasuriya, Sharad Mehrotra,...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A Distributed k-Anonymity Protocol for Location Privacy
To benefit from a location-based service, a person must reveal her location to the service. However, knowing the person’s location might allow the service to re-identify the pe...
Ge Zhong, Urs Hengartner
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Policy Resolution Through Negotiation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression on Realtime Sensor Networks
Abstract—We present a lightweight lossless compression algorithm for realtime sensor networks. Our proposed Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression (ALFC) algorithm performs predic...
Aaron B. Kiely, Mingsen Xu, Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie ...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Practical Rate Adaptation in Mobile Environments
Channel asymmetry and high fluctuation of channel conditions are two salient characteristics of wireless channels in mobile environments. Therefore, when using IEEE 802.11 devices ...
Xi Chen, Prateek Gangwal, Daji Qiao
PERCOM
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Multi-Event Handlers for Sensor-Driven Ubiquitous Computing Applications
Abstract--We propose an extension to the event-based programming model for sensor-driven ubiquitous computing applications. The extension consists of three abstractions: MultiEvent...
Sean Reilly
PERCOM
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days ago
Human Tracking Using Electric Fields
In this paper we describe a simple, cheap, and unobtrusive demo system that can track multiple persons with low-frequency electric fields. The system's operation is based on m...
Miika Valtonen, Jukka Vanhala