Finding a person in a public place, such as in a library, conference hotel, or shopping mall, can be difficult. The difficulty arises from not knowing where the person may be at t...
Ionut Constandache, Xuan Bao, Martin Azizyan, Romi...
Conventional wireless networks employ a contention based channel access mechanism, which not only imposes high latency but also reduces goodput of the network. Lack of interference...
Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
—Modern mobile phones enable absolute positioning based on GPS or WiFi. However, incremental positioning based on dead reckoning is an interesting source of complementary informa...
We study a wide generalization of two classical problems, the Huffman Tree and Alphabetic Tree Problem. We assume that the cost caused by the ith leaf is fi(di), where di is its d...
Manual generation of a book inventory is time-consuming and tedious, while deployment of barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) management systems is costly and afforda...
David M. Chen, Sam S. Tsai, Bernd Girod, Cheng-Hsi...