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ICDCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outs...
Zheng Zeng, S. Yu, Wook Shin, Jennifer C. Hou
DC
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Approximate distributed top- k queries
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Allon Shafrir
CCGRID
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A distributed resource and network partitioning architecture for service grids
Abstract In this paper, we propose the use of a distributed service management architecture for state-of-the-art service-enabled Grids. The architecture is capable of performing au...
Bruno Volckaert, Pieter Thysebaert, Marc De Leenhe...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Prioritized Repeated Eliminations Multiple Access: A Novel Protocol for Wireless Networks
—A new and simple MAC protocol is proposed. Each node transmits a burst with length sampled from a geometric distribution with parameter q followed by a carrier sense slot. A nod...
Greger Wikstrand, Thomas Nilsson, Mark S. Doughert...
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A decentralised coordination algorithm for minimising conflict and maximising coverage in sensor networks
In large wireless sensor networks, the problem of assigning radio frequencies to sensing agents such that no two connected sensors are assigned the same value (and will thus inter...
Ruben Stranders, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings