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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Opportunistic forwarding in workplaces
So far, the search for Opportunistic Network (ON) applications has focused on urban/rural scenarios where the combined use of mobility and the store-carry-and-forward paradigm hel...
Sabrina Gaito, Elena Pagani, Gian Paolo Rossi
CISS
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Near optimal lossy source coding and compression-based denoising via Markov chain Monte Carlo
— We propose an implementable new universal lossy source coding algorithm. The new algorithm utilizes two wellknown tools from statistical physics and computer science: Gibbs sam...
Shirin Jalali, Tsachy Weissman
CISS
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamic data compression for wireless transmission over a fading channel
—We consider a wireless node that randomly receives data from different sensor units. The arriving data must be compressed, stored, and transmitted over a wireless link, where bo...
Michael J. Neely
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Empirical-based probabilistic upper bounds for urgent computing applications
—Scientific simulation and modeling often aid in making critical decisions in such diverse fields as city planning, severe weather prediction and influenza modeling. In some o...
Nick Trebon, Peter H. Beckman
ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Bayesian sequential face detection with automatic re-initialization
This paper proposes a probabilistic search algorithm to boost the computational efficiency of face detection in video sequences. The algorithm sequentially predicts the probabili...
Atsushi Matsui, Simon Clippingdale, Takashi Matsum...