— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
In this paper, we develop a Cooperative Mobility Model that captures new salient features of collaborative and mission-oriented MANETs. In particular, the cost-benefit framework o...
Ghassen Ben Brahim, Bilal Khan, Ala I. Al-Fuqaha, ...
Mobility is a fundamental functionality of the next generation internet computing. How to support mobility for legacy codes, however, is still an issue of research. The key to sol...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
A key problem in sensor networks is to decide which sensors to query when, in order to obtain the most useful information (e.g., for performing accurate prediction), subject to co...