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MOBIDE
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Pervasive Computing: What is it Good for?
The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...
CCR
2004
93views more  CCR 2004»
15 years 4 months ago
Enabling large-scale wireless broadband: the case for TAPs
Abstract-- The vision is tantalizing: a high-performance, scalable, and widely deployed wireless Internet that facilitates services ranging from radically new and unforeseen applic...
Roger Karrer, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knight...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Scheduling Heuristics for Data Requests in an Oversubscribed Network with Priorities and Deadlines
Providing up-to-date input to users’ applications is an important data management problem for a distributed computing environment, where each data storage location and intermedi...
Mitchell D. Theys, Noah Beck, Howard Jay Siegel, M...
ICPPW
2005
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Partitioned Scheduling of Sporadic Real-Time Tasks on Multiprocessor Platforms
Abstract— In the sporadic task model, a task is characterized by three parameters — an execution requirement, a relative deadline, and a period parameter — and has the interp...
Sanjoy K. Baruah, Nathan Fisher
ICRA
2003
IEEE
94views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
Enveloping obstacles with hexagonal metamorphic robots
Abstract— The problem addressed is the distributed reconfiguration of a metamorphic robot system composed of any number of two dimensional robots (modules). The initial configu...
Jennifer E. Walter, Elizabeth M. Tsai, Nancy M. Am...