The computing systems are becoming deeply embedded into ordinary life and interact with physical processes and events. They monitor the physical world with sensors and provide app...
With the emergence of large wired and wireless sensor networks, many real-time applications need to operate on continuous unbounded data streams. At the same time, many of these s...
Yuan Wei, Vibha Prasad, Sang Hyuk Son, John A. Sta...
This paper proposes APART (A Posteriori Active ReplicaTion), a novel active replication protocol specifically tailored for multi-tier data acquisition systems. Unlike existing ac...
Paolo Romano, Diego Rughetti, Francesco Quaglia, B...
Mobile and pervasive applications frequently rely on devices such as RFID antennas or sensors (light, temperature, motion) to provide them information about the physical world. Th...
Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suc...
Geometric coordinates are an integral part of many data streams. Examples include sensor locations in environmental monitoring, vehicle locations in traffic monitoring or battlefi...