VLSI research, in its continuous push toward further miniaturisation, is seeking to break through the limitations of current circuit manufacture techniques by moving towards biomi...
James Smaldon, Natalio Krasnogor, Alexander Camero...
Abstract--Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in ...
Xuedong Liang, Ilangko Balasingham, Victor C. M. L...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of distributed autonomous devices that can sense or monitor physical or environmental conditions cooperatively. WSNs face many chall...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, A. Forster, Ganesh K. Ven...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...