When a mobile user dials 911, a key to arriving to the emergency scene promptly is knowing the location of the mobile user. This paper presents SkyLoc, a GSM fingerprinting-based ...
Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightowe...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding a me...
- The emergence of high-speed networks, Grid Computing, Service-Oriented Architectures, and an ever increasing ambient connection to mobile Internet has enabled an underpinning inf...
—Positioning is a crucial task in pervasive computing, aimed at estimating the user’s positions to provide location-based services. In this paper, we study an interesting probl...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang, ...