Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding a me...
- The emergence of high-speed networks, Grid Computing, Service-Oriented Architectures, and an ever increasing ambient connection to mobile Internet has enabled an underpinning inf...
—Positioning is a crucial task in pervasive computing, aimed at estimating the user’s positions to provide location-based services. In this paper, we study an interesting probl...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang, ...
—This paper reports on measurement results for the simultaneous use of multiple WLAN APs in a large area. We describe some problems of applying legacy IEEE 802.11 WLAN technologi...