Abstract—Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology where a reader device can “sense” the presence of a closeby object by reading a tag device attached to the obj...
Zongheng Zhou, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das, Xianj...
A data mule represents a mobile device that collects data in a sensor field by physically visiting the nodes in a sensor network. The data mule collects data when it is in the prox...
—The connected dominating set (CDS) has been commonly used for routing and broadcast in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Considering the applications of MANETs, it is generally p...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) introduce new challenges to topology control due to the prevalence of lossy links. We propose a new topology control formulation for lossy WSNs that...
Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...