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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Power balanced coverage-time optimization for clustered wireless sensor networks
We consider a wireless sensor network in which sensors are grouped into clusters, each with its own cluster head (CH). Each CH collects data from sensors in its cluster and relays...
Tao Shu, Marwan Krunz, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
A randomized, o(log w)-depth 2 smoothing network
A K-smoothing network is a distributed, low-contention data structure where tokens arrive arbitrarily on w input wires and reach w output wires via their completely asynchronous p...
Marios Mavronicolas, Thomas Sauerwald
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient agent-based cluster ensembles
Numerous domains ranging from distributed data acquisition to knowledge reuse need to solve the cluster ensemble problem of combining multiple clusterings into a single unified cl...
Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer
MOBICOM
2012
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Distinguishing users with capacitive touch communication
As we are surrounded by an ever-larger variety of post-PC devices, the traditional methods for identifying and authenticating users have become cumbersome and time-consuming. In t...
Tam Vu, Akash Baid, Simon Gao, Marco Gruteser, Ric...