Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) with order-preserving hash functions require load balancing to ensure an even item-load over all nodes. While previous item-balancing algorithms only...
Stationary wireless sensor networks (WSNs) fail to scale when the area to be monitored is open (i.e borderless) and the physical phenomena to be monitored may migrate through a la...
Seokhoon Yoon, Onur Soysal, Murat Demirbas, Chunmi...
Data aggregation plays an important role in the design of scalable systems, allowing the determination of meaningful system-wide properties to direct the execution of distributed a...
Tracking humans in an indoor environment is an essential part of surveillance systems. Vision based and microphone array based trackers have been extensively researched in the pas...
Shankar T. Shivappa, Mohan M. Trivedi, Bhaskar D. ...
Time synchronization is necessary in many distributed systems, but achieving synchronization in sensornets, which combine stringent precision requirements with severe resource con...
Jeremy Elson, Richard M. Karp, Christos H. Papadim...