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PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Concurrent scheduling in the Active Bat location system
Abstract—This paper looks at the scalability problems inherent in the Active Bat system: an outside-in ultrasonic location system. Such systems are typically associated with high...
Oliver Woodman, Robert Harle
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Analysis of Quality of Surveillance in fusion-based sensor networks
—Recent years have witnessed the deployments of wireless sensor networks for mission-critical applications such as battlefield monitoring and security surveillance. These applic...
Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xunteng Xu, Jianping Wang
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
ReSCo: A middleware component for Reliable Service Composition in pervasive systems
Abstract—Service composition schemes create high-level application services by combining several basic services. Service composition schemes for dynamic, open systems, such as th...
Brent Lagesse, Mohan Kumar, Matthew Wright
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
GeoKad: A P2P distributed localization protocol
—The widespread use of tracking and localization systems may be hindered by centralized server platforms whose performance can hardly scale up to the needs of very large numbers ...
Marco Picone, Michele Amoretti, Francesco Zanichel...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
iFall - a new embedded system for the detection of unexpected falls
—This paper describes a new embedded system, called iFall, for the detection of unexpected falls for elderly people. In combination with a new sensors system and the monitoring o...
Ralf Salomon, Martin Lüder, Gerald Bieber
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Exploring quality in multisensor pervasive systems - a localization case study
This paper addresses quality vs. cost tradeoffs in multisensor pervasive spaces. Specifically, we focus on a case study that uses location sensing in instrumented pervasive spaces ...
Stefano Bonetti, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasu...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
HIP: Health integration platform
—This paper introduces a new software development platform specifically designed for wireless health applications. Wireless health applications follow a unique paradigm encompas...
Jonathan Woodbridge, Hyduke Noshadi, Ani Nahapetia...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
WebPlug: A framework for the Web of Things
Abstract—We present WebPlug, a framework for the emerging Web of Things. It consists of several building blocks which ease integration of things, including their sensors and actu...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Fabian Schlup, Kay Römer
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Target tracking with packet delays and losses - QoI amid latencies and missing data
—In this paper, we investigate how packet delays and losses affect the quality of target tracking. Specifically, we use Bayesian information of the posterior distribution of tar...
Wei Wei, Ting He, Chatschik Bisdikian, Dennis Goec...