In this paper, we study end-to-end performance characteristics of S-MAC, an energy-aware medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSNs are composed...
This paper introduces a peer-to-peer agent framework for supporting autonomic applications in decentralized distributed environments. The framework provides agents to discover, co...
This paper describes a design space exploration experiment for a real application from the embedded networking domain - the physical layer of a wireless protocol. The application ...
Laura Vanzago, Bishnupriya Bhattacharya, Joel Camb...
This paper applies Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle to the time optimal control of differential drive mobile robots with velocity bounds. The Maximum Principle gives necessary con...
The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...