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ISLPED
2003
ACM
138views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
An environmental energy harvesting framework for sensor networks
Energy constrained systems such as sensor networks can increase their usable lifetimes by extracting energy from their environment. However, environmental energy will typically no...
Aman Kansal, Mani B. Srivastava
IFIP
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Rotational Sector-Based, Receiver-Oriented Mechanism for Location Tracking and Medium Access Control in Ad Hoc Networks Using
The use of directional antenna in wireless ad hoc networks potentially increases simultaneous communication by directing the transmitting and receiving beams towards the receiver a...
Tetsuro Ueda, Shinsuke Tanaka, Dola Saha, Siuli Ro...
WEA
2005
Springer
86views Algorithms» more  WEA 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
Optimal Competitive Online Ray Search with an Error-Prone Robot
We consider the problem of finding a door along a wall with a blind robot that neither knows the distance to the door nor the direction towards of the door. This problem can be so...
Thomas Kamphans, Elmar Langetepe
EH
2000
IEEE
123views Hardware» more  EH 2000»
15 years 4 months ago
The Test Vector Problem and Limitations to Evolving Digital Circuits
How do we know the correctness of an evolved circuit? While Evolutionary Hardware is exhibiting its effectiveness, we argue that it is very difficult to design a large-scale digit...
Kosuke Imamura, James A. Foster, Axel W. Krings
ISAAC
1999
Springer
107views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 1999»
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Carrying Umbrellas: An Online Relocation Problem on Graphs
We introduce an online relocation problem on a graph, in which a player who walks around the nodes makes decisions on whether to relocate mobile resources, while not knowing the fu...
Jae-Ha Lee, Chong-Dae Park, Kyung-Yong Chwa