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...
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 ...
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...
—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...
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