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IPPS
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Maximizing the Lifetime of Dominating Sets
We investigate the problem of maximizing the lifetime of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Being battery powered, nodes in such networks have to perform their intended task und...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A relative positioning system for co-located mobile devices
If a mobile computing device knows how it is positioned and oriented in relation to other devices nearby, then it can provide enhanced support for multi-device and multi-user inte...
Mike Hazas, Christian Kray, Hans-Werner Gellersen,...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A Capacitive Sensing Toolkit for Pervasive Activity Detection and Recognition
In this paper we present a toolkit for realizing capacitive sensing applications for human-computer interaction in pervasive computing systems. We argue that capacitive sensors - ...
Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, ...
ICNP
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
PSM-throttling: Minimizing Energy Consumption for Bulk Data Communications in WLANs
— While the 802.11 power saving mode (PSM) and its enhancements can reduce power consumption by putting the wireless network interface (WNI) into sleep as much as possible, they ...
Enhua Tan, Lei Guo, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang
SASN
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Securing quality-of-service route discovery in on-demand routing for ad hoc networks
An ad hoc network is a collection of computers (nodes) that cooperate to forward packets for each other over a multihop wireless network. Users of such networks may wish to use de...
Yih-Chun Hu, David B. Johnson