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COMCOM
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Energy-efficient coverage problems in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks constitute the platform of a broad range of applications related to national security, surveillance, military, health care, and environmental monitoring. ...
Mihaela Cardei, Jie Wu
AROBOTS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Mobile manipulators for assisted living in residential settings
Abstract: We describe a methodology for creating new technologies for assisted living in residential environments. The number of eldercare clients is expected to grow dramatically ...
Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Grupen, Allen R. Hanson...
SAC
2009
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Towards developing a trust-based security solution
Wireless sensor network has emerged as a new information and data gathering paradigm based on the collaborative efforts of a large number of autonomous sensing devices. With small...
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Donghyun Kim, Chowdhury Shari...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
The Cougar Approach to In-Network Query Processing in Sensor Networks
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
Yong Yao, Johannes Gehrke
ICNP
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Mobile Distributed Information Retrieval for Highly-Partitioned Networks
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Katrina M. Hanna, Brian Neil Levine, R. Manmatha