This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Abstract--Time synchronization is a critical service for distributed network systems. In this work, we investigate this problem in the context of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs)...
Jun Liu, Robert Zhong Zhou, James Peng Zheng, Jun-...
RFID is an emerging technology with many potential applications such as inventory management for supply chain. In practice, these applications often need a series of continuous sca...
Traditional wireless broadcast protocols rely heavily on the 802.11-based CSMA/CA model, which avoids interference and collision by conservatively scheduling transmissions. While C...
Indexing methods for efficient processing of multidimensional data are very requested in many fields, like geographical information systems, drawing documentations etc. Well-known ...