Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been increasingly available for critical applications such as security surveillance and environmental monitoring. An important performance mea...
In this paper we present a novel platform for underwater sensor networks to be used for long-term monitoring of coral reefs and fisheries. The sensor network consists of static a...
Iuliu Vasilescu, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, Matthew...
The proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing devices has brought energy constraints into the limelight, together with performance considerations. Energy-conscious design is...
Ning An, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Narayanan Vijaykri...
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...