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MOBIDE
1999
ACM
15 years 1 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»
14 years 9 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 1 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...
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ICPPW
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 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 2 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...