The research community has witnessed a large interest in monitoring large scale distributed systems. In these applications typically we wish to monitor a global system condition wh...
Ali Abbasi, Ahmad Khonsari, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi
Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-h...
Securing multicast communications in ad hoc networks has become one of the most challenging research directions in the areas of wireless networking and security. This is especiall...
Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Maria Striki, John S. Baras
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
Monte Carlo methods and their subsequent simulated annealing are able to minimize general energy functions. However, the slow convergence of simulated annealing compared with more ...