Ad-hoc networks of mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs represent a new and exciting distributed system architecture. Building distributed applications on such an architec...
Yang Ni, Ulrich Kremer, Adrian Stere, Liviu Iftode
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...
Despite their increasing sophistication, wireless sensor networks still do not exploit the most powerful of the human senses: vision. Indeed, vision provides humans with unmatched...
Mohammad H. Rahimi, Rick Baer, Obimdinachi I. Iroe...
Radio duty cycling has received significant attention in sensor networking literature, particularly in the form of protocols for medium access control and topology management. Whi...