—It is well-known that the overall efficiency of a distributed system can suffer if the participating entities seek to maximize their individual performance. Consequently, mecha...
—The paper addresses the maximal lifetime problem in sensor-target surveillance networks. Given a set of sensors and targets in an Euclidean plane, each sensor can watch all targ...
Hai Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yiu-Wing Leung, Xiaohua Jia,...
Market-based compute grids encompass service providers offering limited resources to potential users with varying demands and willingness to pay. Providers face difficult decisions...
—We consider information retrieval in a wireless sensor network deployed to monitor a spatially correlated random field. We address sensor scheduling in each data collection und...