Mobile and pervasive applications frequently rely on devices such as RFID antennas or sensors (light, temperature, motion) to provide them information about the physical world. Th...
Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suc...
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability,...
Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Rang...
Routers are expected to play an important role in the IPbased wireless data network. Although a substantial number of techniques have been proposed to improve wireless network per...
Petros Zerfos, Gary Zhong, Jerry Cheng, Haiyun Luo...
In this paper we present a new approach to monitor noise pollution involving citizens and built upon the notions of participatory sensing and citizen science. We enable citizens t...
Nicolas Maisonneuve, Matthias Stevens, Maria E. Ni...