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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Instantiation of the Protocol Interference Model in Mission-Critical Wireless Networks
Interference model is the basis of MAC protocol design in wireless networks, and it directly affects the efficiency and predictability of wireless messaging. To exploit the strengt...
Xin Che, Xiaohui Liu, Xi Ju, Hongwei Zhang
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Batch Scheduling of Recurrent Applications for Energy Savings on Mobile Phones
Abstract--Recurrent applications that mostly run in the background are a significant source of power consumption on batterylimited mobile phones. We highlight the pitfalls of sched...
Matt Calder, Mahesh K. Marina
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Multi-Constrained Anypath Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
Anypath routing has been proposed to improve the performance of unreliable wireless networks by exploiting the spatial diversity and broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In thi...
Xi Fang, Dejun Yang, Pritam Gundecha, Guoliang Xue
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
iPoint: A Platform-Independent Passive Information Kiosk for Cell Phones
We introduce iPoint, a passive device that can interact and deliver information to virtually any mobile phone equipped with a WiFi network interface and a camera. The iPoint does n...
Hooman Javaheri, Guevara Noubir
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Back-Tracking Based Sensor Deployment by a Robot Team
Existing solutions to carrier-based sensor placement by a single robot, in a bounded unknown region of interest (ROI), do not guarantee full area coverage and/or do not terminate. ...
Greg Fletcher, Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, Ivan Stojmenovi...
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Utility-Based Gateway Deployment for Supporting Multi-Domain DTNs
Abstract--Due to technology or policy constraints, communications across network domains usually require the intervention of gateways, and their proper deployment is crucial to the...
Ting He, Kang-Won Lee, Nikoletta Sofra, Kin K. Leu...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
C-DMRC: Compressive Distortion-Minimizing Rate Control for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Abstract--This paper investigates the potential of the compressed sensing (CS) paradigm for video streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. The objective is to co-design a ...
Scott Pudlewski, Tommaso Melodia, Arvind Prasanna
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Cloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a s...
Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prasha...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Managing TCP Connections in Dynamic Spectrum Access Based Wireless LANs
Wireless LANs have been widely deployed as edge access networks in home/office/commercial buildings, providing connection to the Internet. Therefore, performance of end-toend conne...
Ahwini Kumar, Kang G. Shin
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2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Placement and Orientation of Rotating Directional Sensors
In this paper, we address several problems that arise in the context of rotating directional sensors. Rotating directional sensors (RDS) have a "directional" coverage reg...
Giordano Fusco, Himanshu Gupta