Abstract— Heterogeneous multicast is an efficient communication scheme especially for multimedia applications running over multihop networks when multicast receivers in the same...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are challenging types of networks where resources can be scarce. In particular, battery is often a very limited resource and the radio interface is...
Abstract— Today data sources are pervasive and their number is growing tremendously. Current tools are not prepared to exploit this unprecedented amount of information and to cop...
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, ...
Aimed to provide computation ubiquitously, pervasive computing is perceived as a means to provide a user the transparency of anywhere, anyplace, anytime computing. Pervasive compu...
K. Kalapriya, S. K. Nandy, Deepti Srinivasan, R. U...