Application-level multicast (ALM) is being increasingly recognized as a solution to support multipoint applications without the need for a network layer multicast protocol. Though...
While the IP unicast service has proven successful, extending end-to-end adaptation to multicast has been a difficult problem. Unlike the unicast case, multicast protocols must su...
Traditional deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) rely on static basestations to collect data. For applications with highly spatio-temporal and dynamic data generation, su...
A number of IEEE 802.15.4 devices can form a tree topology as proposed by ZigBee specification. The ability to confine the shape and extent of the tree serves as the basis for add...
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...