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PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Energy-Aware Media Transcoding in Wireless Systems
In distributed systems, transcoding techniques have been used to customize multimedia objects, utilizing trade-offs between the quality and sizes of these objects to provide diffe...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Assistive Monitoring of Smart Spaces
Large sensor networks in applications such as surveillance and virtual classrooms, have to deal with the explosion of sensor information. Coherent presentation of data coming from...
Shichao Ou, Deepak R. Karuppiah, Andrew H. Fagg, E...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Learning to Detect User Activity and Availability from a Variety of Sensor Data
Using a networked infrastructure of easily available sensors and context-processing components, we are developing applications for the support of workplace interactions. Notions o...
Dave Snowdon, Jean-Luc Meunier, Martin Mühlen...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
MediaBroker: An Architecture for Pervasive Computing
We present MediaBroker, a distributed framework designed to support pervasive computing applications. Specifically, we propose an architecture consisting of a transport engine and...
Martin Modahl, Ilya Bagrak, Matthew Wolenetz, Phil...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Denial-of-Service Attacks on Battery-powered Mobile Computers
Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it w...
Thomas L. Martin, Michael S. Hsiao, Dong S. Ha, Ja...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Programming Pervasive and Mobile Computing Applications with the TOTA Middleware
Pervasive computing calls for suitable middleware and programming models to deal with large software systems dived in dynamic mobile network environments. Here we present the prog...
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Software Engineering Framework for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing
There is growing interest in the use of context-awareness as a technique for developing pervasive computing applications that are flexible, adaptable, and capable of acting autono...
Karen Henricksen, Jadwiga Indulska
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic World Models from Ray-tracing
Context-aware computing systems demand an accurate and up-to-date world model which computationally represents the environment they oversee. Systems to date tend to have small-sca...
Robert K. Harle, Andy Hopper
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A User-Guided Cognitive Agent for Network Service Selection in Pervasive Computing Environments
Connectivity is central to pervasive computing environments. We seek to catalyze a world of rich and diverse connectivity through technologies that drastically simplify the task o...
George Lee, Peyman Faratin, Steven Bauer, John Wro...