In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
Abstract— The IEEE 802.16 mesh mode supports two scheduling mechanisms, namely centralized scheduling and distributed scheduling. Centralized scheduling is based on a routing tre...
We consider the problem of how to schedule t similar and independent tasks to be performed in a synchronous distributed system of p stations communicating via multiple-access chan...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Andrzej Li...
Network protocols are typically designed and tested individually. In practice, however, applications use multiple protocols concurrently. This discrepancy can lead to failures fro...
Jung Il Choi, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, P...
-- This paper presents an artificial ant-colony approach to distributed sensor wakeup control in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to accomplish the joint task of surveillance and tar...
Yan Liang, Jiannong Cao, Lei Zhang 0006, Rui Wang,...