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ICDCSW
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Joint Sleep Scheduling and Mode Assignment in Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems
Designing cyber-physical systems with high efficiency, adaptability, autonomy, reliability and usability is a challenging task. In this paper, we focus on minimizing networkwide ...
Chun Jason Xue, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Zili ...
SENSYS
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
CenWits: a sensor-based loosely coupled search and rescue system using witnesses
This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a search and rescue system called CenWits. CenWits uses several small, commonly-available RF-based sensors, and a...
Jyh-How Huang, Saqib Amjad, Shivakant Mishra
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
ICDCSW
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Subscription Summaries for Scalability and Efficiency in Publish/Subscribe Systems
A key issue when designing and implementing largescale publish/subscribe systems is how to efficiently propagate subscriptions among the brokers of the system. Brokers require thi...
Peter Triantafillou, Andreas A. Economides
EDCC
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Fault Tolerant Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Systems with Low-Precision Oscillators
In this paper we present a new fault tolerant clock synchronization algorithm called the Fault Tolerant Daisy Chain algorithm. It is intended for internal clock synchronization of...
Henrik Lönn