— The IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is designed for low data rate, short distance and low power communication applications such as Wireless Sensor Networks (...
eChronicle applications are inherently event-centric, enabling users to find and explore important events in an application domain and providing unified access to any media that...
Recent rapid technological developments have led to the development of tiny, low-power, low-cost sensors. Such devices integrate sensing, limited data processing and communication...
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
The XML language is a W3C standard sustained by both the industry and the scientific community. Therefore, the available information annotated in XML keeps and will keep increasing...
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